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.
BORIS JOHNSONIt 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.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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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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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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We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
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It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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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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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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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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We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.
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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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I want to win and I want to be in office.
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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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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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When Cameron’s Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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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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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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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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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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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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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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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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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what’s going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.
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