He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it – a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.
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More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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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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.
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You are part of our Great British family.
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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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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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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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People are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.
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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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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 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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My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
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I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
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This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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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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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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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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What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms.
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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
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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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It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
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There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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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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