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

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.

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.

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

I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?

We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.

Can I say anything good about Ken Livinstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can't now remember what any of them were.

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It's not. On the contrary, it's a massive opportunity for this country.

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

There must be room in our world for eccentricity, even if it offends the prudes, and room for the vague other-worldliness that often goes with genius.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

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

I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much

You are part of our Great British family.

Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.

Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

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Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.

The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

London is - after Athens and Rome - the third most influential city in history.

The Shakespearean theatre was the product of the entrepreneurial maritime culture of the age,

London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.

One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.

I want to win and I want to be in office.

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.

There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

[People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.

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.

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

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.

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

This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for self-doubt. It is a moment of hope.

The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people.

We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

I'm a one-nation Tory.

I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.

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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.

We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.

There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that.

That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

The key thing is to be "Conservative in principle but Liberal in sympathy".

As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale,

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

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