Boris Johnson quotes - page 6

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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist. View quote
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It just happens I write fast and always have done. View quote
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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick. View quote
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. View quote
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I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight. View quote
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work. View quote
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The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics. View quote
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I lost the job. Well the honest truth is that this has been embellished by, probably by me, in the sense that there were two of us who were taken on as trainees, and this was in the 80s, I think it was the late 80s, and it was him or me who was going to get the job at the end of, at the end of, eight months or nine months. It was mano-a-mano and of course it was him who got it. (Boris Johnson)
The only thing they've got to do is clear the dead bodies away. View quote
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I have not had an affair with Petronella. It is complete balderdash. It is an inverted pyramid of piffle. View quote
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It is obviously possible to make more money by not being a full-time politician. I don't want to put too fine a point on it, but you have to make sacrifices sometimes. View quote
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I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton. View quote
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I'm a one-nation Tory. View quote
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I accused men of being responsible for a social breakdown which is costing us all, as taxpayers, £9.1 billion per year, and which is producing a generation of ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive and illegitimate children. View quote
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I lost the job, but the well the honest truth is that this has been embellished by, probably by me, in the sense that there were two of us who were taken on as trainees, and this was in the, the, the 80s, I think it was the late 80s, and it was him or me who was going to get the job at the end of, at the end of, eight months or nine months.... It was, it was absolutely, it was mano-a-mano and of course it was him who got it. View quote
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I've got a brilliant new strategy, which is to make so many gaffes that nobody knows which one to concentrate on. They cease to be newsworthy, you completely out-general the media in that way, and they despair. You shell them, you pepper the media... you've got to pepper their positions with so many gaffes that they're confused. It's like a helicopter throwing out chaff, and then you steal on quietly and drop your depth charges wherever you want to drop them. View quote
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Johnson: Well, I, I've had enough of it! I-. View quote
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Johnson: The government of London, the government of London will carry on irrespective of the, er, temporary difficulties in providing a national government. Thank you. (Boris Johnson)
They want us to go to the polls in such a state of quivering apprehension that we do the bidding of the Euro-elites, and vote to stay in the European Union. View quote
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There's a group of UK business people, wonderful guys who want to invest in Sirte, on the coast, near where Gaddafi was actually captured and executed as some of you may have seen. And they literally have a brilliant vision to turn Sirte, with the help of the municipality of Sirte, to turn it into the next Dubai. The only thing they've got to do is clear the dead bodies away and then they'll be there. View quote
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[The attack was] a sign [from President Putin that] no-one could escape the long arm of Russian revenge ... [The attack] was a sign that President Putin or the Russian state wanted to give to potential defectors in their own agencies: 'This is what happens to you if you decide to support a country with a different set of values. You can expect to be assassinated'. View quote
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If he can fix North Korea and if he can fix the Iran nuclear deal then I don't see why he is any less of a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize than Barack Obama, who got it before he even did anything. View quote
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