The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
BORIS JOHNSONIt is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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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Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It’s not. On the contrary, it’s a massive opportunity for this country.
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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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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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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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I’m no communist.I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
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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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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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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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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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He 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!
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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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It 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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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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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 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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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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If gay marriage was OK … then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog.
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I’m no communist. I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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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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If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.
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