Quotes by Boris Johnson

About Boris Johnson:

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British politician, popular historian and journalist who has served as Mayor of London since 2008 and as Member of Parliament (MP) for Uxbridge and South Ruislip since 2015. Johnson previously served as the MP for Henley from 2001 until 2008. A member of the Conservative Party, Johnson considers himself a One Nation Conservative and has been described as a libertarian due to his association with both economically liberal and socially liberal policies.
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I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

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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.

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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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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.

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

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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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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 ...

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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.

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

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Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.

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My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fie...

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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.

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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, an...

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The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

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What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameBoris Johnson
  • DescriptionBritish Conservative Party politician
  • AliasesAlexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson; BoJo
  • BornJune 19, 1964
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionJournalist; Politician; Editor; Writer