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.
BORIS JOHNSONHe wished that Britain had ‘a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today’. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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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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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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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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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 think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.
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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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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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The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
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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.
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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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