We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
BORIS JOHNSONHe thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it – a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.
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Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation.
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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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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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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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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
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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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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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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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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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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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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
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