Boris Johnson Quotes
I would like to thank first the vast multitudes who voted against me - and I have met quite a few in the last nine months, not all of them entirely polite.
Boris Johnson, Lord Mayor of London (Tory), First Speech as Mayor of London, London City Hall May 3, 2008
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Canadian election campaigns are by American standards extremely short, just a few months. Although she was trying to say that the particular issue takes more time to discuss and resolve satisfactorily in such a limited time frame, this particular gaffe was one of her more commonly quoted. Canada's first female Prime Minister. See Grover Cleveland who faced a similar situation and came our less scathed.
The supervisor was accosted by a citizen who was vituperative in denouncing a recently passed ordinance regarding the curbing of dogs:
She even thought that Gandhi was sometimes too violent verbally. There were few reformers who had such a long, extensive, and activist career in both England and India. She began her career as a minister’s wife but was literally turned out of her house by her husband for whom she was not religiously orthodox enough. This started her religious activism which ended with her as an atheist. She led a match-girl’s strike, founded a Hindu college in India, and was even arrested for pornography in England when she wrote a book advocating birth control. She is on many lists of “Great Indians” along with Gandhi and Nehru. She was Jiddu Krishnamurti’s teacher.
Explaining why he went to bed early on election night:
When it came to legislation that affected veterans, the members of Congress were in an all or nothing situation. If there was a bill to extend or improve a benefit for veterans, the member would be classified completely on how he/she voted on the singular issue. Begitch summed the dilemma for legislators well with this quote.
There are very few places in America where a public official could get away with statements like this one.
He and a few of his colleagues had been invited to the White House for a screening of his latest movie. President George W. Bush had also invited some members of Congress and other Republican politicians. As Crystal was the star of the movie, the President introduced him and invited him to make some remarks.
In addition to the Attorney General, Washington’s cabinet consisted only of Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, and Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury. Both were brilliant, passionate men dedicated to the new nation. However, they held opposite points of view on many major fundamental issues of political approach to the new nation. Washington greatly valued their advice and they each were magnificent administrators of their departments. However, they each distrusted each other intensely and believed that the other was advocating policies and practices that would destroy the new nation. Their squabbling was often public and Washington could never understand why they could not be civil about their disagreements. Ironically, Hamilton turned out to have been right about the assumption of state debt and the importance of business, finance and manufacturing. Jefferson whose vision had all Americans being farmers was wrong on this but was right on the limits of the executive and the rights of the individual vis a vis the government. Jefferson’s views turned out to be the ones most Americans wanted and his Democratic Republican party not only beat the Federalists but ended the Federalist Party. Hamilton died in a duel, Modern America is an amalgam of both of their views with modernity tending more and more towards Hamilton.
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British politician and writer serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party since July 2019. He was Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. Johnson has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015 and was previously MP for Henley from 2001 to 2008. He has been described as adhering to the ideology of one-nation and national conservatism.
