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.
BORIS JOHNSONIt is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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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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The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
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Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I’m afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.
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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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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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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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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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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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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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