We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
BORIS JOHNSONWe 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.
More Boris Johnson Quotes
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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.
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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.
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London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
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Life isn’t like coursework, baby. It’s one damn essay crisis after another.
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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.
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I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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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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My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
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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.
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I’m no communist.I’m a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.
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I’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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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.
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