The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
BORIS JOHNSONTry as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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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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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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David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a ‘born leader’, declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister.
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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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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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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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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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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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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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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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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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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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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