Boris Johnson Quotes - Page 3

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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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• This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

  Boris Johnson

  Spit, Subjects, Scorn

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• The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.

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  Running, Mps, Ideas

  "What's wrong with 40 Liverpool Road?". Daily Telegraph, September 18, 2003.

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• Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.

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  America, Queues, Trade

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.

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  Party, Leader, World

  "Conservative MPs in uproar as Boris Johnson 'rips party apart' by withdrawing from leadership contest after ambush by Michael Gove" by Laura Hughes, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• 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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  Thinking, Men, Differences

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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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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  Business, House, Debt

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• The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

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  Vacuums, Void, Empty

  "The least said about Lib Dems, the better". Daily Telegraph, September 25, 2003.

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• The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.

  Boris Johnson

  London Olympics, Scales

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• Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation. 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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  Thinking, Men, Political

  Boris Johnson (2014). “The Churchill Factor: How One Man Made History”, p.49, Hachette UK

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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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  Want, London, Orlando

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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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  Cutting, People, Want

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• Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

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  Art, Evil, Humanity

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

  Boris Johnson

  School, Eton

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You are part of our Great British family.

  Boris Johnson

  British

  Facebook Post by Boris Johnson, www.facebook.com. June 30, 2016.

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• Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.

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  Compassion, Sight, Feet

  "Trust me, being sacked isn't all bad". Daily Telegraph, December 2, 2004.

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• Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can't now remember what any of them were.

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  Long, Say Anything, Remember

  "Best slapdowns of 2012". www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2012.

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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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  Benefits, Chance, Economy

  "Conservative MPs in uproar as Boris Johnson 'rips party apart' by withdrawing from leadership contest after ambush by Michael Gove" by Laura Hughes, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 30, 2016.

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• Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

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  Dark, Humanity, Age

  "London Mayor Boris Johnson: 'We Can't Leave Europe, We're Part of the Continent'". Interview with Thomas Hüetlin, Christoph Scheuermann, www.spiegel.de. August 12, 2015.

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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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  Taken, Patriotic, Long

  "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.

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• It just happens I write fast and always have done.

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  Writing, Done, Happens

  "Boris Johnson, Tory With an Attitude". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. June 1, 2012.

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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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  Thinking, People, Risk

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• I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

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  Believe, Males, Female

  "Boris Johnson denies being sexist towards female politicians" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2012.

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

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  Country, People, Underestimate

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• We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

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  Breaking Down, Break, Barriers

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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