London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
BORIS JOHNSONHitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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 lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
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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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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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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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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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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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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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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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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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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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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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