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I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

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Boris Johnson
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 19
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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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Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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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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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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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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I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
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When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.
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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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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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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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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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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 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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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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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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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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