Best Boris Johnson Quotes

#1. It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.

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#2. Now [Mike] Gove has destroyed Boris Johnson.

James Kirkup

#3. Lear's daughters and their loathsome husbands are all deservedly slaughtered for their ill treatment of an aged ruler (one of the reasons that tragedy remains so huge in Asia)

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

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

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#6. When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. 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.

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#10. Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities.

Michael Gove

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

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#12. I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.

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#13. It just happens I write fast and always have done.

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#14. The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.

Theresa May

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

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

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#17. If I'd been on the Remain side I would have tried to have seen the best in Europe and tried to explain that. Instead, what they've done is endlessly try and talk up what they see as the weaknesses of Britain and they aren't there. That's a total mistake.

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#18. Augustine said he wept more for the death of Dido than he did for the death of his own saviour. What about Book Four, the best book of the best poem of the best poet?

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

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#20. The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.

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#21. The Remain campaign ... I've never seen a more miserable offering. All they are saying is stay in and we'll do our best to make sure that Britain's Parliamentary independence isn't eroded faster than we can possibly imagine.

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#22. The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

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#23. It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.

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#24. When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.

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

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

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

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#28. 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.

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#29. 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.

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

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

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#32. When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.

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#33. The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what's going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.

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#34. I do think human beings cannot be faulted for wishing to judge themselves and their lives and their achievements by others around them; that is a natural human feeling.

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

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

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

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#38. 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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