The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
BORIS JOHNSONBring 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.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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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My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
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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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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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He 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!
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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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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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Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
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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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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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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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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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What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?
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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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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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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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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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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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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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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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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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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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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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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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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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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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