Boris Johnson Quotes

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The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-mania is going to go zoink off the scale.

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

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I'm of the pie-eaters' liberation front. I'm fat and proud to be fat.

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I want to thank Sian [Berry, Green Party] and Lindsey [German, Left List] and Alan [Craig, Christian Peoples Party] and Gerard [Batten, UKIP], who have sometimes joined us for hustings, but mainly I want to thank my two colleagues in the strange triumvirate who have been trundling around London's church halls and TV studios violently disputing the meaning of multiculturalism and the exact cost of conductors. On which point I think I'm going to declare victory.

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

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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.

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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative

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And as for Ken, Mayor Livingstone, I think you have been a very considerable public servant and a distinguished leader of this city.

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I'm having Sunday lunch with my family. I'm vigorously campaigning, inculcating my children in the benefits of a Tory government.

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No-one obeys the speed limit except a motorised rickshaw.

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I do not for one minute believe that this election shows that London has been transformed overnight into a Conservative city but I do hope it does show that the Conservatives have changed into a party that can again be trusted after 30 years with the greatest, most cosmopolitan, multi-racial generous hearted city on earth in which there are huge and growing divisions between rich and poor.

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Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.

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Some readers will no doubt say that a devil is inside me; and though my faith is a bit like Magic FM in the Chilterns, in that the signal comes and goes, I can only hope that isn't so.

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I would like to thank first the vast multitudes who voted against me - and I have met quite a few in the last nine months, not all of them entirely polite.

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I didn't see it, but it sounds barbaric. It's become like cock-fighting: poor dumb brutes being set upon each other by conniving television producers.

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I'm very attracted to it. I may be diverting from Tory party policy here, but I don't care.

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I will work flat out from now on to earn your trust and to dispel some of the myths that have been created about me.

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Who, according to JK Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter novels, was Harry Potter's first girlfriend? Who is the first person he kisses? That's right, Cho Chang, who is a Chinese overseas student at Hogwarts school," he said, to laughs and scattered applause. "Ladies and gents I rest my case."

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Old Man Howard, that Old Man Howard, he just keeps rolling, just keeps rolling.

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We have a new team ready to go in to City Hall. Where there have been mistakes we will rectify them. Where there are achievements we will build on them.

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

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I advise you all very strongly - go for a run, get some exercise, and have a beautiful day.

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The proposed ban on incitement to religious hatred makes no sense unless it involves a ban on the Koran itself; and that would be pretty absurd, when you consider that the Bill's intention is to fight Islamophobia.

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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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If Amsterdam or Leningrad vie for the title of Venice of the North, then Venice - what compliment is high enough? Venice, with all her civilisation and ancient beauty, Venice with her addiction to curious aquatic means of transport, yes, my friends, Venice is the Henley of the South.

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Look, I wouldn't trust Harriet Harman's political judgement.

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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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Thank you very much Mr Meyer, Anthony Meyer that is. I want to thank you, I want to thank the police of course, and my wife Marina and my family, and my utterly brilliant campaign team, the Conservative GLA candidates — some of whom were extremely unlucky tonight — and of course the thousands of Conservative activists, the ward captains and knocker-uppers who did such an amazing job today, and indeed yesterday, rather.

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We are confident in our story and will be fighting this all the way. I am very sorry that Alastair Campbell has taken this decision but I can see that he got his tits in the wringer.

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This has been a marathon election as you can tell with a record turnout and I think it has been good for politics and it has been good for London.

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