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Boris Johnson słynne cytaty

„Tak niedorzecznych pomysłów nie było w Europie, odkąd Dioklecjan próbował regulować ceny warzyw i owoców w cesarstwie rzymskim.”

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o projekcie urzędowego ograniczenia premii dla finansistów z City.
Źródło: „Forum”, 11 marca 2013.

„Londyn jest dla miliarderów tym, czym dżungla na Sumatrze dla orangutanów. Możliwe nawet, że miliarderów u nas jest więcej niż tam orangutanów.”

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o wielkich firmach, które płacą za pracę poniżej minimalnej stawki.
Źródło: Zabójcze puenty, „Forum” nr 16, 7–20 sierpnia 2015, s. 82.

„W 1904 roku 20% podróży w Londynie odbywało się na rowerach. Chcę, żeby tak było znowu. Jeśli nie można cofnąć zegara do 1904 roku, to jaki sens ma bycie konserwatystą?”

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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? (ang.)
na otwarciu londyńskiego systemu rowerów publicznych 30 lipca 2010.
Źródło: Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4722, „London SE1”

„Borisie, pewien lord kazał uśpić swojego psa, kiedy uznał, że nie ma już z niego pożytku.”

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Autorka: Theresa May
strofując swojego szefa dyplomacji.
Źródło: Powiedzieli, „Forum” nr 1, 11–19 stycznia 2017.

„Głosuj na mnie, a twoja żona będzie miała większy biust.”

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Źródło: Borys Szalony, „Le Monde”, tłum. „Forum”, 26 kwietnia 2013.

„Wolałbym zdechnąć w rowie, niż po raz kolejny poprosić Unię o przedłużenie.”

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Wypowiedź z kampanii wyborczej, w czasie której zapowiadał, że Wielka Brytania wyjdzie z Unii Europejskiej zgodnie z planem 31 października 2019, nawet jeśli do tego czasu nie uda się wynegocjować umowy dot. tego wystąpienia
Źródło: Premier Johnson nie podpisał listu do Donalda Tuska https://www.stefczyk.info/2019/10/20/premier-johnson-nie-podpisal-listu-do-donalda-tuska/

Boris Johnson: Cytaty po angielsku

“We need to realise the depth of the problems we face. Unless we get on and do this thing, we will be punished for a very long time. There is a very real choice between getting Brexit done and the potential extinction of this great party.”

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Tory leadership: Johnson warns party of risk of Brexit 'extinction' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48521389, BBC News, 5 June 2019
2010s, 2019

“We will leave the EU on 31 October, deal or no deal. The way to get a good deal is to prepare for a no deal.”

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Źródło: Tory leadership: Rivals clash over support for no-deal Brexit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48403705, BBC News, 25 May 2019

“If you do that you have to answer the question what next? What if the Iranians do rush for a nuclear weapon? Are we seriously saying that we are going to bomb those facilities at Fordo and Natanz? Is that really a realistic possibility? Or do we work round what we have got and push back on Iran together?”

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Iran nuclear deal: Johnson courts Trump on Fox & Friends https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-44026548, BBC News, 7 May 2018
2010s, 2018

“After we liberate ourselves from the shackles of Brussels we will be able to create hundreds of thousands of new jobs right across the UK.”

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Źródło: EU referendum: Kinnock urges young voters to prevent 'Brexit by default' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36447926 BBC News (4 June 2016)

“We will be informed by our most important ally that it is in our interests to stay in the EU, no matter how flawed we may feel that organisation to be. Never mind the loss of sovereignty; never mind the expense and the bureaucracy and the uncontrolled immigration. The American view is very clear.”

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Boris Johnson urges Obama not to intervene in EU debate https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35800232 BBC News (14 March 2016)
2010s, 2016

“You look at the plan to increase the efforts to prop up the single currency with an ever denser system of integration, with more and more regulation about all sorts of social and economic issues which will impact directly on this country, I think the risk is increasingly in staying in the project. I think the best thing we can do is show a lead, show an example and strike out for freedom.”

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Boris Johnson: EU exit 'win-win for us all' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35783049, BBC News, 11 March 2016
2010s, 2016

“Britain is a great nation, a global force for good. It is surely a boon for the world and for Europe that she should be intimately engaged in the EU.”

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Draft of a pro-EU newspaper column https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/boris-my-case-for-britain-to-stay-in-europe-f7qgrvtps, written before submitting an anti-EU column to the Daily Telegraph, later reproduced in the Sunday Times (February 2016)
2010s, 2016

“I have not had an affair with Petronella. It is complete balderdash. It is an inverted pyramid of piffle.”

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It is all completely untrue and ludicrous conjecture. I am amazed people can write this drivel.
Simon Walters, "Boris, Petsy and a 'pyramid of piffle'", Mail on Sunday, 7 November 2004, p. 7.
Denying accusations of his having an affair with Petronella Wyatt.
2000s, 2004

“We are confident in our story and will be fighting this all the way. I am very sorry that Alastair Campbell has taken this decision but I can see that he got his tits in the wringer.”

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Catherine Macleod, "Angry Blair takes on press", The Herald (Glasgow), 24 April 2002, p. 1.
On Campbell's negative reply to the Spectator's report that the Government had influence the Queen Mother's funeral arrangements.
2000s, 2002

“It is obviously possible to make more money by not being a full-time politician. I don't want to put too fine a point on it, but you have to make sacrifices sometimes.”

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Conservative Leadership Contest Hustings in Darlington https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1147103540827082754 (5 July 2019)
2010s, 2019

“I want to stress that for the vast majority of the people of this country, we should be going about our business as usual.”

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2020s, 2020
Źródło: As quoted in Coronavirus: Up to fifth of UK workers 'could be off sick at same time' https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51718917, 3 March 2020, BBC News.

“I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody, you will be pleased to know, and I continue to shake hands. People obviously can make up their own minds but I think the scientific evidence is… our judgement is that washing your hands is the crucial thing.”

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At a press conference, as quoted in U.K. Leader Boris Johnson Boasts He Has Shaken Hands With Coronavirus Patients https://www.newsweek.com/boris-johnson-says-shaken-hands-coronavirus-patients-1490214 by Khaleda Rahman, 3 March 2020, Newsweek.
2020s, 2020

“The real hero of Jaws is the mayor. A gigantic fish is eating all your constituents and he decides to keep the beaches open. OK, in that instance he was actually wrong. But in principle, we need more politicians like the mayor - we are often the only obstacle against all the nonsense which is really a massive conspiracy against the taxpayer.”

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Speech given by Johnson at Lloyd's of London in 2006, quoted in * 2007-07-18

Boris Johnson inspired by Jaws mayor

Graeme Wilson and George Jones

The Telegraph

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1557765/Boris-Johnson-inspired-by-Jaws-mayor.html
2000s, 2006

“At this stage I do not think that the international comparisons and the data are yet there to draw the conclusions that we want.”

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Prime Minister's Questions https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2020-05-06/debates/FD4CE89E-F564-4D9F-B396-59684C404BB8/PrimeMinister (6 May 2020)
2020s, 2020

“We have so far succeeded in the first and most important task we set ourselves as a nation to avoid the tragedy that engulfed other parts of the world.”

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Prime Minister's statement on coronavirus https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-ministers-statement-on-coronavirus-covid-19-30-april-2020 (30 April 2020)
2020s, 2020

“£60,000,000 I saw was being spaffed up the wall on some investigation into historic child abuse. What on earth is that going to do to protect the people now?”

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Boris Johnson: Money Spent Investigating Historical Child Abuse Is "Spaffed Up The Wall" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_FSqfXyUFk, LBC, 14 March 2019
2010s, 2019

“I do think they [the EU] understand there's an opportunity to do a deal. I think it's going to be touch and go.”

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2010s, 2019
Źródło: Brexit: Johnson accused of ‘gaslighting’ voters amid claims he offered nothing new in EU meeting https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-deal-boris-johnson-donald-tusk-meeting-g7-summit-a9078646.html (26 August 2019)

“There's a terrible kind of collaboration as it were, going on between people who think they can block Brexit in Parliament and our European friends.”

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Źródło: Boris Johnson: Brexit opponents 'collaborating' with EU https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49348072 BBC News (14 August 2019)

“We want to, and we are going to, deliver on the mandate of the people, which is to take the UK out of the EU whole and entire on 31 October.”

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Źródło: Boris Johnson 'absolutely' rules out pre-Brexit election https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49125078 BBC News (26 July 2019)

“We should actively campaign for a public understanding of the benefits of the [UK] union, economic and strategic, for the people and its component nations,”

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Źródło: Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt pledge to safeguard union https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-48817848 BBC News (30 June 2019)

“We are being asked to vote for a customs union and a second referendum. The Bill is directly against our manifesto - and I will not vote for it. We can and must do better - and deliver what the people voted for.”

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Źródło: Brexit: PM under fire over new Brexit plan https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48360456 BBC News (22 May 2019)

“[I] didn't say anything about Turkey during the referendum. Since I made no remarks...I can't disown them”

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Źródło: Brexit: Did Boris Johnson talk Turkey during referendum campaign? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46926119, BBC News, 18 January 2019

“if we get it wrong we will be punished”

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Źródło: Theresa May on why Boris Johnson speech made her cross https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45722675, BBC News, 2 October 2018

“There is no plan for no deal because we are going to get a great deal.”

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Źródło: Boris Johnson: EU can 'go whistle' over Brexit divorce bill https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-40571123, BBC News, 11 July 2017

“[The UK is] no less united... nor indeed any less European following the decision to leave the EU.”

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Źródło: Brexit: David Cameron to quit after UK votes to leave EU https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36615028 BBC News (24 June 2016)

“The EU is 50 years old, it is going in the wrong direction. It is time for real reform. The only way to get that is to leave.”

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Źródło: Boris Johnson: EU exit 'win-win for us all' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35783049 BBC News (11 March 2016)

“Would anyone in their right mind want to join the EU today?”

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Źródło: Boris Johnson: EU exit 'win-win for us all' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35783049, BBC News, 11 March 2016

“Leaving the EU would be a win-win for all. The EU costs us a huge amount of money and subverts our democracy”

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Źródło: Boris Johnson: EU exit 'win-win for us all' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35783049 BBC News (11 March 2016)

“There is only one way to get the change we need - and that is to vote to go; because all EU history shows that they only really listen to a population when it says no.”

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Źródło: EU referendum: Leaving EU a 'leap in the dark' says Cameron https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35634239 BBC News (22 February 2016)