Boris Johnson Quotes
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Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.
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One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
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The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
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My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
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What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.
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I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people.
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I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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Tremendous, little short of superb. On cracking form.
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I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill.
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.
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Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins.
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Any seat would be mad not to take him. He's a terrific chap.
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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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Howard is a dynamic performer on many levels. There you are. He sent me to Liverpool. Marvellous place. Howard was the most effective Home Secretary since Peel. Hang on, was Peel Home Secretary?
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It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
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I would like to thank first the vast multitudes who voted against me - and I have met quite a few in the last nine months, not all of them entirely polite.
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You shaped the office of mayor. You gave it national prominence and when London was attacked on 7 July 2005 you spoke for London.
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Not even Mr Blair has been able to erode the unions conviction that we all have a 'right' to a minimum wage… Both the minimum wage and the Social Charter would palpably destroy jobs.
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Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative