Quote #7,764
"I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, ..." — Boris Johnson
I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles.
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