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.
BORIS JOHNSONHe wished that Britain had ‘a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today’. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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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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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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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
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It hasn’t taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they’re back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
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The difference between Hitler’s speeches and Churchill’s speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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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 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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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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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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You are part of our Great British family.
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