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.
BORIS JOHNSONThis is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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I think it’s absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.
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Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can’t now remember what any of them were.
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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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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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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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This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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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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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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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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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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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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