It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness.
BORIS JOHNSONI lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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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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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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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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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can’t turn the clock back to 1904, what’s the point of being a Conservative?
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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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They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.
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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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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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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms.
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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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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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