Boris Johnson's Quotes

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

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

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

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

Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.

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.

I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

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

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

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.

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

There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

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

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.