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 JOHNSONLondon is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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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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I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people’s attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
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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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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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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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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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Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.
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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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London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
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My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
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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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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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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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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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We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
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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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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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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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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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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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