We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
BORIS JOHNSONHe 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.
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London is a fantastic creator of jobs – but many of these jobs are going to people who don’t originate in this country.
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Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place.
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I don’t believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.
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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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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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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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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.
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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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I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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I would ban sweets from school – but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.
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Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious.
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We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
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Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.
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The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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My ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
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The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.
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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.
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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.
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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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I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
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This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.
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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.
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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.
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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 am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.
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