In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can’t turn the clock back to 1904, what’s the point of being a Conservative?
BORIS JOHNSONI think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It’s time for a rethink, and the Tory party – the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth – is where it’s happening.
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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it – a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.
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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.
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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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