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.
BORIS JOHNSONSince 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.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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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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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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Plus I think she can articulate what’s needed at the moment, which is a bit of an antidote to some of the gloom and negativity and misunderstanding about what the Brexit vote means.
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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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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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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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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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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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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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People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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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 policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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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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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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