My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
BORIS JOHNSONI 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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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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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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I think it’s absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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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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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 lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.
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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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Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
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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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We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.
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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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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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