Boris Johnson Quotes

As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.

I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.

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.

I'm a one-nation Tory.

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.

Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can't now remember what any of them were.

Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.

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

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

We celebrate the contribution of people who have come to this country to make it better.

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 to Vegas and you didn't misbehave in some trivial way.

I want to win and I want to be in office.

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.

We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt. But it is a moment for hope...

He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.

Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.

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

[People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.

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

One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.

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.

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.

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.