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Boris Johnson Quotes

I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

– Boris Johnson

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

I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.

– Boris Johnson

The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro – as was intended by the Germans.

– Boris Johnson

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

– Boris Johnson

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

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

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

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

– Boris Johnson

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

– Boris Johnson

I think I’m basically a liberal Conservative – I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that we as politicians create the framework for business to produce the dosh that we’re going to need to pay for the poorest. And the longer I live, the more I think that we all have a duty to each other.

– Boris Johnson

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

– Boris Johnson

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

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

What I really think about Banksy is I think he’s a genius; he’s a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he’s got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.

– Boris Johnson

I’ve done eight years as mayor of London. I enjoyed it hugely; it was a massive privilege.

– Boris Johnson

I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill.

– Boris Johnson

We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth.

– Boris Johnson

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

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

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

– Boris Johnson

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

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

I believe we now have a glorious opportunity: we can pass our laws and set our taxes entirely according to the needs of the U.K. economy.

– Boris Johnson

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

– Boris Johnson

I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people.

– Boris Johnson

Huge numbers of people in London depend on their cars. Fuel duty is becoming a big factor in people’s cost of living. I believe in trying to ease these burdens.

– Boris Johnson

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

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

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

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