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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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Boris Johnson
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 19
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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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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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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 play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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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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Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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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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I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.
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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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We need to remember that we can't compete endlessly with other nations that set their income taxes substantially lower than ours. They will attract jobs, and investment. They may generate more tax - and they may even persuade their tennis champs to run that extra half yard
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Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.
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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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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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These days we dimly believe that the Second World War was won with Russian blood and American money and though that is in some ways true, it is also true that, without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.
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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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The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
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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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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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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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London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.
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