Boris Johnson Quotes

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Any seat would be mad not to take him. He's a terrific chap.

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Nor do I propose to defend the right to talk on a mobile while driving a car, though I don't believe that is necessarily any more dangerous than the many other risky things that people do with their free hands while driving - nose-picking, reading the paper, studying the A-Z, beating the children, and so on.

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

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You shaped the office of mayor. You gave it national prominence and when London was attacked on 7 July 2005 you spoke for London.

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I can't remember what my line on drugs is. What's my line on drugs?

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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.

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And I can tell you that your courage and the sheer exuberant nerve with which you stuck it to your enemies, especially in New Labour, you have thereby earned the thanks and admiration of millions of Londoners, even if you think that they have a funny way of showing it today.

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Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.

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And when we have that drink together which we both so richly deserve, I hope we can discover a way in which the mayoralty can continue to benefit from your transparent love of London, a city whose energy conquered the world and which now brings the world together in one city.

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To rinse the gutters of public life you need a gutter press.

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All politicians in the end are like crazed wasps in a jam jar, each individually convinced that they are going to make it.

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Like some cut-price edition of David Cameron hastily knocked off by a Shanghai sweatshop to satisfy unexpected market demand.
Of Nick Clegg

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The Tuscan Palazzo of Count Girolamo Strozzi where he [Tony Blair] forged one of New Labour's few hard-edged ideological positions: he was pro-sciutto and anti-pasto.

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I have not had an affair with Petronella. It is complete balderdash. It is an inverted pyramid of piffle. It is all completely untrue and ludicrous conjecture. I am amazed people can write this drivel.

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And as for those who voted for me, I know there will be many whose pencils hovered for an instant before putting an X in my box and I will work flat out to repay and to justify your confidence.

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Tremendous, little short of superb. On cracking form.

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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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Labour's appalling agenda, encouraging the teaching of homosexuality in schools, and all the rest of it.

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Now can I ask you a question," "Why is it that we're lucky to have so many Chinese students? Is it because of the weather? Is it because we have so many French restaurants? Is it because we have so many communist bicycles?"

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And I hope that everybody who loves this city will put aside party differences to try in the making of Greater London greater still. Let's get cracking tomorrow and let's have a drink tonight.

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Ok, I said to myself as I sighted the bird down the end of the gun. This time, my fine feathered friend, there is no escape.

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