Boris Johnson Quotes

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• Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.

  Boris Johnson

  Bmw, Wife, Voting

  "Boris casts his vote: 'Spectator' editor tells 'Desert Island Discs' he'll quit to spend more time with David Cameron". Francis Elliott, Independent on Sunday, October 30, 2005.

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

  Boris Johnson

  Birthday, Cake, Dessert

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Boris Johnson

  Opportunity, Disaster, My Friends

  "Trust me, being sacked isn't all bad". Daily Telegraph (p. 26), December 2, 2004.

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• 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

  Thinking, Facts, Icing

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

  Boris Johnson

  Hard Work, Promise, Easy

  "Boris Johnson admits he has fallen short on election promises" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2012.

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• 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

  Dog, Gay, Men

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• The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.

  Boris Johnson

  New York, Real, Risk

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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

  Boris Johnson

  Redneck, Becoming, Chance

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Boris Johnson

  Skills, Style, Moments

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?

  Boris Johnson

  Drug, Lines, Remember

  "The Genelection Game". Sunday Mirror, April 24, 2005.

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• My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.

  Boris Johnson

  Trying, World, Ideals

  "London Mayor Boris Johnson: 'We Can't Leave Europe, We're Part of the Continent'". Interview with Thomas Hüetlin, Christoph Scheuermann, www.spiegel.de. August 12, 2015.

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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.

  Boris Johnson

  Night, Cheese, Middle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Boris Johnson

  Done, Blameless, Domesticity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It's time for a rethink, and the Tory party - the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth - is where it's happening.

  Boris Johnson

  Party, Drug, Earth

  Boris Johnson (2003). “The essential Boris Johnson: lend me your ears”

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

  Boris Johnson

  Dark, Keyboards, Intensity

  "A wise guy playing the fool to win". Sunday Times, July 16, 2000.

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• I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.

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  Stress, Believe, Envy

  "Boris Johnson says 'greed is good' in speech to honour Margaret Thatcher". www.scmp.com. November 28, 2013.

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• It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving picaninnies; and one can imagine that Blair, twice victor abroad but enmired at home, is similarly seduced by foreign politeness. They say he is shortly off to the Congo. No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in Watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird.

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  Queens, Cheer, Fall

  Daily Telegraph, January 10, 2002.

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• In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

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  Journey, Want, London

  "Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch", www.london-se1.co.uk. July 30, 2010.

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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.

  Boris Johnson

  Pms, Olive Trees, Mars

  2004 In the Observer, 20 Jun.

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

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Celebrate, Should

  "EU debate: Boris Johnson says Brexit will be 'Britain's independence day' as Ruth Davidson attacks 'lies' of Leave campaign in front of 6,000-strong Wembley audience". www.telegraph.co.uk. June 21, 2016.

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• The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

  Boris Johnson

  Meat, Sausage, Conservative

  "Boris Johnson: Tories must be meat in coalition sausage". Interview with Jeremy Paxman, news.bbc.co.uk. May 7, 2010.

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• The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything.

  Boris Johnson

  Thinking, Differences, Speech

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• 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.

  Boris Johnson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Play

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

  Boris Johnson

  Winning, Office, Want

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• 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

  Running, Passion, Tennis

  "Daily Express" ("William Hickey" column), March 21, 2005.

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