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• The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

  Boris Johnson

  Meat, Sausage, Conservative

  "Boris Johnson: Tories must be meat in coalition sausage". Interview with Jeremy Paxman, news.bbc.co.uk. May 7, 2010.

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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.

  Boris Johnson

  Good Life, Writing, Media

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

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• Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and Hitler for a mere 25 million. What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms. What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?

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  War, Order, Russia

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• I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects

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  War, Dancing, People

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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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  Home, Chinese, Ping Pong

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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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  Running, Passion, Tennis

  "Daily Express" ("William Hickey" column), March 21, 2005.

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• 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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  Reality, Mad, Needs

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• 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

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

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• It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

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  Wall, Trying, Piglet

  "The BBC was doing its job – bring back Gilligan". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 30, 2004.

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• I think it'd be disgraceful if a chap wasn't allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn't misbehave in some trivial way.

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  Fun, Real, Thinking

  "Prince Harry dumped by model girlfriend after naked pictures emerge". www.mirror.co.uk. August 26, 2012.

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• Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

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  Thinking, Would Be, Achieve

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

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• I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

  Boris Johnson

  Self, Cynical, Interest

  "Boris Johnson ... in his own words" by Isabelle Chevallot, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2007.

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• Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

  Boris Johnson

  Baby, Damn, Crisis

  "Exams work because they're scary". Daily Telegraph, May 12, 2005.

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

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  Country, People, Celebrate

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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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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  Growth, Trying, Looks

  Boris Johnson (2003). “The essential Boris Johnson: lend me your ears”

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• Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.

  Boris Johnson

  Democracy, Liberty, Communism

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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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  Clothes, People, Leaving

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• 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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  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.

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  Ecosystems, Greed, Understanding

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• Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.

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  People, Volunteer, Helping

  Interview with Charlie Kenber, londoncalling.com. July 10, 2013.

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• When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.

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  Cycling, Law, Ubiquity

  "Why we cyclists need to strike a deal with pedestrians" by Boris Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2006.

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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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  Country, Opportunity, Thinking

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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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  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.

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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.

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  Country, Jet Engines, Hands

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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...

  Boris Johnson

  Self, Doubt, Moments

  "Boris Johnson is NOT running to be the next British prime minister — here are the candidates still in the running" by Adam Payne, uk.businessinsider.com. June 30, 2016.

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