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.
BORIS JOHNSONNever in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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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 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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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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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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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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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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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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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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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 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.
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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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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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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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Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
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