My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
BORIS JOHNSONI think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.
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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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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness.
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Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
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It hasn’t taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they’re back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
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This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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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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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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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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Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation.
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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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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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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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