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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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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 am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.
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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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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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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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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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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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Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
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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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My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.
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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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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.
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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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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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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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In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?
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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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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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I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.
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