It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
BORIS JOHNSONMy friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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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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 only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
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The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
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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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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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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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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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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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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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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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You know, sometimes I don’t understand what’s wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don’t seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property.
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