[Guests have been asked to say their favourite thing about Denmark]. - Sandi Toksvig

There are only two countries in the world where representatives of the state religion automatically get a seat in the legislature: the UK and Iran. Obviously, there are fundamental differences between the two countries and in the religious representatives’ views, but it is symbolic all the same. How can it be that our democratic system draws parallels with an Islamic theocracy?

[On men who take off their shirts in public.] There's an awful lot of lard out there. No woman would do that.

[On teaching her children to have good manners.] It's mainly because I wanted to send them out in the world and have everybody like them.