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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

Boris Johnson

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
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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Conservatism Journey Time Transportation
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Done Happens Writing
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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Country Jobs People
This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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Benefits Chance Economy
Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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Crisis Essay Life Oneself
I think it’s absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.
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Organisation Sides Thinking
All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
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Clothes Emperor Myself People Talk
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 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 was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
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Blind Creature Ecosystem Existence Kind Member
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
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Him Love Myself Passion Run
The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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Conservative Meat Sausage
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
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Goodness Life Possible Pretty Time Writing
Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It’s not. On the contrary, it’s a massive opportunity for this country.
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Country Himself Massive Opportunity People Thinking
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
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Better Ideas People Truth
The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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Myself Reality Reason Risk
We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
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Celebration Country Immigrant Ourselves
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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Long Patriotic Taken
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
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
It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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Easy Hard Promise Work
Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can’t now remember what any of them were.
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Goodness Myself Remember Talk
When Cameron’s Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
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Conservatism Cycle Gold Power
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
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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Compassion Feet Sight
They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.
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Break Country Out Pangas Shortly Warriors

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