Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
BORIS JOHNSONIn 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?
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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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Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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If gay marriage was OK … then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.
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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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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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If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.
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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 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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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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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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London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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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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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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