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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

~Boris Johnson

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It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

~Boris Johnson

Topics: Easy Hard Hard Work Keep Make Promises Them Work

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If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.

~Boris Johnson

Topics: Able Also Amount Back Count Country Eu Get Holding Huge Huge Amount Laws Leave Make More Needs Opportunity Our Outside Own People Policies Priorities Regulation Relieved Set Suit System Tax Unnecessary Votes Will

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I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court.

~Boris Johnson

Topics: About Absolutely Alone American Being Bizarre Control Convention Court Criminal Even Find Giving Giving Up International Just Law Our Seas Sign Sovereignty Up

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It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

~Boris Johnson

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I've got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any modern politician. The more you read about him, the more completely amazed you are about what he did - his energy, his literary fecundity, his ability to work - just unbelievable energy.

~Boris Johnson

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Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

~Boris Johnson

Topics: Between Century Difference Dining Dinner England French Invented Looked Nations Opportunity Other Play Rest Saw Table Tables Think Us World You I Think 19Th Century

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If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace.

~Boris Johnson

Topics: Accustomed Away Blind Blind Eye Commit Crime Crimes Disgrace Disorder Evasion Eye Fare Getting Go Likely London Making Minor More Much People Serious Turn Why Will You

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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

~Boris Johnson

Topics: Disasters Discovered Fresh Friends Indeed Myself Only Opportunities

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Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.

~Boris Johnson

Topics: Been Bring City Economy Fantastic Forward Manifesto Taking Times Tough Want

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: June 19th, 1964

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