Boris Johnson Quotes - Page 3

This is a super masticated subject, and it is time to spit it out.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.

I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much.

He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.

The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.

Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points of both sides and thereby incarnating the will of the nation. He thinks of himself as a gigantic keystone in the arch, with all the lesser stones logically induced to support his position. He has a kind of semi-ideology to go with it - a leftish Toryism: imperialist, romantic, but on the side of the working man.

Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.

I 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.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.

You are part of our Great British family.

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.

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.

This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.

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.

Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

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.

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.

I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.

[People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.

I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people.

We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.