London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.
BORIS JOHNSONLondon 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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We 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.
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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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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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Can I say anything good about Ken Livingstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can’t now remember what any of them were.
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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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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 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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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler was a ‘born leader’, declared the befuddled former British Prime Minister.
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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 is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
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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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The only reason I wouldn’t go to some parts of New York is the real risk of meeting Donald Trump.
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We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere.
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This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.
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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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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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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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I 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.
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I want to win and I want to be in office.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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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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It hasn’t taken them long, they began by telling us they would have a positive and patriotic case and they’re back to project fear within minutes. There they go again they have nothing positive to say.
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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.
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I think it’d be disgraceful if a chap wasn’t allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn’t misbehave in some trivial way.
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