The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what’s going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.
BORIS JOHNSONIf we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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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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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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You know, sometimes I don’t understand what’s wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don’t seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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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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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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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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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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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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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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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 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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