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.
BORIS JOHNSONYou know, sometimes I don’t understand what’s wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don’t seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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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 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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This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope.
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I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
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Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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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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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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You know, sometimes I don’t understand what’s wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don’t seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property.
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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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