It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
BORIS JOHNSONLondon is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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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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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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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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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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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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We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth-and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans.
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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 volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our 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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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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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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