London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
BORIS JOHNSONSome people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It’s not. On the contrary, it’s a massive opportunity for this country.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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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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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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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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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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David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a ‘born leader’, declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister.
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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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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 policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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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 dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
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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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We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth-and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans.
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