Boris Johnson Quotes

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

Friends, Moment, Less

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

Good, Finding, Chances

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

Play, Between, Rest

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
Boris Johnson

Good, Schools, Thousands

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
Boris Johnson

Cake, Policy, Eating

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.
Boris Johnson

Life, Time, Good

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

Friends, Fresh, Indeed

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.
Boris Johnson

Country, Jobs, London

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.
Boris Johnson

Freedom, Able, Lives

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
Boris Johnson

Work, Place, London

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
Boris Johnson

Cynical, Supporting, Cameron

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

Chance, Finding, Becoming

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

Yourself, Night, Down

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
Boris Johnson

Rather, Female, Male

I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
Boris Johnson

Important, Terrorism, Confident

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

Work, Hard, Keep

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.
Boris Johnson

Fight, Tough, Hoping

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

Life, Done, Lead

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
Boris Johnson

Love, Remember, Once

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

Love, Passion, Him

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.
Boris Johnson

Why, Honest, Progress

I want to win and I want to be in office.
Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.
Boris Johnson

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.
Boris Johnson

Stupid, Everybody, Judged

It just happens I write fast and always have done.
Boris Johnson

Done, Write, Happens

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Politician

Born: June 19, 1964

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