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.
BORIS JOHNSONPlus 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.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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You are part of our Great British family.
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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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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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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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I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people’s attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
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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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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 only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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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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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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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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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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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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