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If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

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Boris Johnson
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 19
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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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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It's time for a rethink, and the Tory party - the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth - is where it's happening.
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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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Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.
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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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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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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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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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