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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.

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Boris Johnson
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 19
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I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.
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I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace the absurd gloom in some quarters with a positive, confident and optimistic approach, not just to Europe, but to government all round.
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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.
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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men or indeed three men and a dog.
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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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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
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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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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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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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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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My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
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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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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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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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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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The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything Churchill made you think you could do anything.
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