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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.

Boris Johnson

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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Believe Envy Stress
We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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Barriers Break Breaking Down
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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Hands People Swim
I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people’s attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
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Attitude Sports Thinking
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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Long Patriotic Taken
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.
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Business Debt House
I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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Cynical Interest Self
I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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Jump Love Swimming
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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Ideology Lesser Logically Position
This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
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Scorn Spit Subjects
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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Becoming Chance Redneck
I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad … he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.
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Mad Needs Reality
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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Chance Finding Myself
I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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Blame Leadership Life Myself
We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.
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Competition Help Kids Look Play Politics Sports Stop View
He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.
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Difference History Human Man Oneself Thinking Vast

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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