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?
BORIS JOHNSONI 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.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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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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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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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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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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I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
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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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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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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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Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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