Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation.
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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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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It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
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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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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.
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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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We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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I’m no communist.I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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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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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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It hasn’t taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they’re back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
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David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a ‘born leader’, declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister.
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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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