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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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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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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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I think it's absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.
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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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You are part of our Great British family.
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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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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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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The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
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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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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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