Boris Johnson

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"If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog."

—Boris Johnson

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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."

—Boris Johnson

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"Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3."

—Boris Johnson

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"I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis."

—Boris Johnson

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

—Boris Johnson

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"In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?"

—Boris Johnson

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"The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything."

—Boris Johnson

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"I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity."

—Boris Johnson

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

—Boris Johnson

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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