77 Quotes by Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson, born Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson on June 19, 1964, is a British politician and public figure who has made a significant impact on the political landscape of the United Kingdom. Known for his distinctive personality and charismatic demeanor, Johnson has been a prominent figure in British politics for decades. He has held various roles, including serving as the Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip, the Mayor of London, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Johnson's political career has been marked by his often-controversial style and his strong advocacy for Brexit, the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
As Prime Minister, he has faced numerous challenges, including managing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and navigating the complexities of post-Brexit trade negotiations. Johnson's leadership style has been a subject of both praise and criticism, and his policies have elicited passionate responses from both supporters and detractors. Regardless of one's political stance, Boris Johnson's influence on British politics and his ability to engage with the public through his charismatic persona and unorthodox approach have made him a significant and polarizing figure in contemporary British history.
Boris Johnson Quotes
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
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.
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
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.
Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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.
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and yet sometimes we just don't seem to have the gumption to exploit our intellectual property. We split the atom, and now we have to get French or Korean scientists to help us build nuclear power stations. We perfected the finest cars on earth—and now Rolls-Royce is in the hands of the Germans. Whatever we invent, from the jet engine to the internet, we find that someone else carts it off and makes a killing from it elsewhere.
We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport.
The only reason I wouldn't go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.
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.
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?
Remind me: who was the greater mass murderer, Stalin or Hitler? Well, Stalin is thought to have been responsible for about 50 million deaths, and Hitler for a mere 25 million. What Hitler did in his concentration camps was equalled if not exceeded in foulness by the Soviet gulags, forced starvation and pogroms. What makes the achievements of communist Russia so special and different, that you can simper around in a CCCP T-shirt, while anyone demented enough to wear anything commemorating the Third Reich would be speedily banged away under the 1986 Public Order Act?
I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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.
The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.
I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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.
He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.
I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.
London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.
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.
I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work.
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous.
The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.
I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.
Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It's not. On the contrary, it's a massive opportunity for this country.
All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation. He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it - a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.
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.
Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.
It hasn't taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they're back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
These days we dimly believe that the Second World War was won with Russian blood and American money; and though that is in some ways true, it is also true that, without Churchill, Hitler would almost certainly have won.
David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a 'born leader', declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister. He wished that Britain had 'a man of his supreme quality at the head of affairs in our country today'. This from the hero of the First World War! The man who had led Britain to victory over the Kaiser!
Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
We need to remember that we can't compete endlessly with other nations that set their income taxes substantially lower than ours. They will attract jobs, and investment. They may generate more tax - and they may even persuade their tennis champs to run that extra half yard
The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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.
Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.
London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
Do you seriously propose that they are going to be so insane as to allow tariffs to be imposed. The EU is, I'm afraid a job destroying engine. You can see it all across southern Europe, you can see it, alas, in our country.
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...
Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
You are part of our Great British family.
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.
This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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.
I'm no communist. I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.
I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people's attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime.
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 afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country.
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.
― Boris Johnson Quotes
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