Boris Johnson Quotes About Country

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• You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. 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. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Jet Engines, Hands

• We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Celebrate, Should

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

• We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, People, Celebrate

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

• London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Jobs, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Done, January

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience". BBC One's debate at Wembley Arena, London, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

• I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Justice, Authority

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience" by Michael Wilkinson, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

• 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.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Opportunity, Thinking

• My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.

  Boris Johnson

  Running, Country, Strong

• 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. 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!

  Boris Johnson

  Country, War, Hero

• 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.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Jobs, Europe

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

• [People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, People, Underestimate

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