Top 40 Boris Johnson Quotes

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It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep t

It is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
Boris Johnson
I’ve got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any modern politician. The more you read about him, the more completely amazed you are about what he did – his energy, his literary fecundity, his ability to work – just unbelievable energy.
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I’ve done eight years as mayor of London. I enjoyed it hugely; it was a massive privilege.
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We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe.
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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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The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
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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.
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We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth.
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I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one’s political armoury.
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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.
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We were told by President Obama that in respect of international trade, we would have to get to the back of the queue – not a position that America normally requires the United Kingdom to be in when it comes to other matters, such as the Iraq War.
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It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.
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I’m a one-nation Tory.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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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.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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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.
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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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Obama’s extraordinary political skills suggest he is more than capable of rising above any personal historical grudges he may have inherited.
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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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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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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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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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I’m not particularly politically correct, so I tend to reflect what I think are the terrible realities of life, which I think are, generally speaking, conservative.
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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.
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London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
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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.
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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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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I’m an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once – and I get jammed.
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The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
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The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturin

The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro – as was intended by the Germans.
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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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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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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.
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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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I’ve always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.
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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.
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Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.
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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.
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