Top 100 Quotes About Boris Johnson
#1. Now [Mike] Gove has destroyed Boris Johnson.
James Kirkup
#2. Boris Johnson is a man of great attributes and great qualities.
Michael Gove
#3. The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon.
Theresa May
#4. The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness.
James Kirkup
#5. Boris [ Johnson]and Dave [Cameron] gnawed each other's testicles [during the Tory civil war which blighted the EU referendum].
Ken Livingstone
#6. I would have thought that they [Boris Johnson and Nigel Farag] would have had a plan,instead of developing a plan they are leaving the boat.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#7. I think there's almost an expectation that it should be Theresa [May] and Boris [Johnson]. I think they'd be real surprise if it ended up with someone else.
Nigel Evans
#8. Boris [Johnson] was cavalier with assurances he made. We're picking a prime minister here to lead the country, not a school prefect.
Dominic Raab
#9. I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.
Michael Gove
#10. [Boris]Johnson, [Nigel] Farage, they are retro-nationalists, not patriots. Patriots don't abandon ship when the going gets tough. They stay on board.
Jean-Claude Juncker
#11. I'm a very good friend of Stephen Crabb, I had great fun campaigning with Boris Johnson on the winning side, I have great experience working with Theresa May in government on national security. I respect all of them and I hope that's very much the tone.
Liam Fox
#12. Boris [Johnson] follows the Bullingdon playbook: you break it and someone else has to fix it.
Tim Farron
#13. It's not for everyone. Some people just haven't got it. Maybe he [Boris Johnson] is one of them.
Ruth Davidson
#14. Meanwhile London Mayor Boris Johnson 'joked' that women only go to university because 'they've got to find men to marry' (hilarious, no?) and
Laura Bates
#15. In particular, I wanted to help build a team behind Boris Johnson so that a politician who argued for leaving the European Union could lead us to a better future.
Michael Gove
#16. I have come, reluctantly, to the conclusion that Boris [Johnson] cannot provide the leadership or build the team for the task ahead.
Michael Gove
#17. My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.
Boris Johnson
#18. 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.
Boris Johnson
#19. 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.
Boris Johnson
#20. 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.
Boris Johnson
#21. 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.
Boris Johnson
#22. London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
Boris Johnson
#23. This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
Boris Johnson
#24. I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
Boris Johnson
#25. 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.
Boris Johnson
#26. 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.
Boris Johnson
#27. 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.
Boris Johnson
#28. The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
Boris Johnson
#29. 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.
Boris Johnson
#30. 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.
Boris Johnson
#31. 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.
Boris Johnson
#32. I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
Boris Johnson
#33. I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.
Boris Johnson
#34. I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much
Boris Johnson
#35. I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.
Boris Johnson
#36. 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.
Boris Johnson
#37. I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
Boris Johnson
#38. 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)
Boris Johnson
#39. I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
Boris Johnson
#40. This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
Boris Johnson
#41. 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.
Boris Johnson
#42. 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.
Boris Johnson
#43. 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.
Boris Johnson
#44. 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.
Boris Johnson
#45. 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.
Boris Johnson
#46. 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.
Boris Johnson
#47. It just happens I write fast and always have done.
Boris Johnson
#48. My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
Boris Johnson
#49. 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.
Boris Johnson
#50. Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
Boris Johnson
#51. I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace the absurd gloom in some quarters with a positive, confident and optimistic approach, not just to Europe, but to government all round.
Boris Johnson
#52. As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister
Boris Johnson
#53. 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.
Boris Johnson
#54. I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
Boris Johnson
#55. I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else?
Boris Johnson
#56. 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.
Boris Johnson
#57. The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
Boris Johnson
#58. The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
Boris Johnson
#59. We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.
Boris Johnson
#61. Everyone says it's going to be Snapcase at the palace. He listens to the people."
"Yeah, right," said Vimes. And I listen to the thunder. But I don't do anything about it.
Terry Pratchett
#62. Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
Boris Johnson
#63. 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.
Boris Johnson
#64. Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
Boris Johnson
#65. on a stool amid his guffawing comrades, 'I stand for
Boris Johnson
#66. Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
Boris Johnson
#67. If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.
Boris Johnson
#69. London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.
Boris Johnson
#70. One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
Boris Johnson
#71. I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
Boris Johnson
#72. There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
Boris Johnson
#73. That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.
Boris Johnson
#74. Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
Boris Johnson
#75. The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
Boris Johnson
#76. Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
Boris Johnson
#77. We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.
Boris Johnson
#78. He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.
Boris Johnson
#79. Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.
Boris Johnson
#80. I firmly believe that volunteering is good for our society and brings communities together. It's a fantastic opportunity to get involved in your local community, to meet new people and to gain a sense of pride and achievement.
Boris Johnson
#81. I think it's absolutely amazing and how the Remain side have the cheek to come and tell us that we improve our security by staying in this organisation I do not understand.
Boris Johnson
#82. I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
Boris Johnson
#83. Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.
Boris Johnson
#84. I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.
Boris Johnson
#85. It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
Boris Johnson
#86. If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain's seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy.
Boris Johnson
#87. But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.
Boris Johnson
#88. The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.
Boris Johnson
#89. I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?
Boris Johnson
#90. The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
Boris Johnson
#92. It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
Boris Johnson
#93. If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace.
Boris Johnson
#94. I believe in immigration. But I feel people think it would be better if there was an Australian-style points based system so we could actually get a good system.
Boris Johnson
#95. 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.
Boris Johnson
#96. I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.
Boris Johnson
#97. I think it'd be disgraceful if a chap wasn't allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went all the way to Las Vegas and you didn't misbehave in some trivial way.
Boris Johnson
#98. I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent.
Boris Johnson
#99. My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
Boris Johnson
#100. Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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