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 JOHNSONWhat 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?
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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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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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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
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Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I’m afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.
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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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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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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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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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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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