I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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 our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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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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Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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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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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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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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In 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?
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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.
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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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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.
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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
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What 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?
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