I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
BORIS JOHNSONSince January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.
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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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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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The crucial thing is to look in an informed way at what’s going on. Look at the way in which we are forced by our imbalanced system to push away people who might contribute mightily to the NHS.
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It 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.
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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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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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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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Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.
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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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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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You are part of our Great British family.
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He 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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As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
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Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.
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