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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

Boris Johnson

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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Ancestor Freedom Hands Ourselves People
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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Guard Judgment Stupidity
I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad … he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.
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Conclusion Mad Need Professional Reality
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 think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.
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Allow Behave Grace Reality Way
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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Country Home Ping Pong
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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Country Nuclear Power Rolls Royale Scientist Stations
I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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Food Healthy Myself Pressure
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.
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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.
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Believe Economy Equality Essential Myself Possible Value
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Done Happens Writing
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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Differences Speech Thinking
This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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Benefits Chance Economy
Plus I think she can articulate what’s needed at the moment, which is a bit of an antidote to some of the gloom and negativity and misunderstanding about what the Brexit vote means.
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Misunderstanding Moment Negativity
The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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Conservatism Meat
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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Criticism Low Moments Skills Style Talk

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