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.
BORIS JOHNSONThe 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.
BORIS JOHNSONI 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.
BORIS JOHNSONMy chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
BORIS JOHNSONThe only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
BORIS JOHNSONVoting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
BORIS JOHNSONI want to win and I want to be in office.
BORIS JOHNSONThe dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
BORIS JOHNSONI’d like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
BORIS JOHNSONI think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn’t go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar.
BORIS JOHNSONIt 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 JOHNSONMy ideal world is, we’re there, we’re in the EU, trying to make it better.
BORIS JOHNSONMy friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
BORIS JOHNSONWhen Cameron’s Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
BORIS JOHNSONNever in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
BORIS JOHNSONIt is easy to make promises – it is hard work to keep them.
BORIS JOHNSONIt was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem.
BORIS JOHNSON