QUOTES by Boris Johnson
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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."
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"I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised."
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"The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two."
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"I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do."
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"I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent."
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"I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury."
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"One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them."
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"Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins."
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"It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it."
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"I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people."
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"What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work."
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"I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language."
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"Huge numbers of people in London depend on their cars. Fuel duty is becoming a big factor in people's cost of living. I believe in trying to ease these burdens."
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"I believe in immigration. But I feel people think it would be better if there was an Australian-style points based system so we could actually get a good system."
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"The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans."
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"This is an absolute turning point in the story of our country because I think if we go on with being enmeshed in the E.U., it will continue to erode our democracy. That is something that worries me."
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"I've done eight years as mayor of London. I enjoyed it hugely; it was a massive privilege."
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"We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth."
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"Obama's extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited."
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"London is—after Athens and Rome—the third most influential city in history."
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Vipassana is fine until it becomes a technique that has many stages and that takes time to develop. That can be okay for people for a while, but then you have to leave the technique behind.
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"I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill."
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"There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge."
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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 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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"I do think human beings cannot be faulted for wishing to judge themselves and their lives and their achievements by others around them; that is a natural human feeling."
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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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"The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two."
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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. But in the end you have a great sense of personal dissatisfaction."
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"Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed."
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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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"It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits."
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"I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners."
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