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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

Boris Johnson

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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Country Olympics People Scales
I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
BORIS JOHNSON

Healthy School Sweet
I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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Cynical Interest Self
I’m no communist. I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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Communism Conservatism Forget People Tax
This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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Benefits Chance Economy
Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism – that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
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Communism Democracy Replacement Tyranny Wrong
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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Believe Economy Equality Essential Myself Possible Value
We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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Break Poor Restrain
As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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Country England People Prime
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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Disaster Discover Friendship Myself Opportunity
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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Doubt Moments Self
Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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Darkness Force Intense Power
I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people’s attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
BORIS JOHNSON

Attitude Sports Thinking
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.
BORIS JOHNSON

Believe Envy Stress
It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
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Appearance Believe Flip Human Wall
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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Country Done January

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