British - Politician | June 19, 1964 -
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
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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.
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I think I'm basically a liberal Conservative - I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that we as politicians create the framework for business to produce the dosh that we're going to need to pay for the poorest. And the longer I live, the more I think that we all have a duty to each other.
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I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.
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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.
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I'm a one-nation Tory.
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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 chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
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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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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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I want to win and I want to be in office.
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I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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