You know, sometimes I don’t understand what’s wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don’t seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property.
BORIS JOHNSONWe celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
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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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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
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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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Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
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People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
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This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope…
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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.
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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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Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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