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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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Boris Johnson
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 19
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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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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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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 am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.
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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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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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We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
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Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.
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Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I'm afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.
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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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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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Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
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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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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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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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You are part of our Great British family.
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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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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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