I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
BORIS JOHNSONI 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.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
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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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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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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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London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can’t now remember what any of them were.
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All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
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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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