Quotes by Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson

British politician and author

Lived from: 1964 -

Category: Politics | History and sociology | Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 19 june 1964

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  • That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.
    Daily Telegraph 26 February 2004
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  • The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
    Whats wrong with 40 Liverpool Road?, Daily Telegraph, 18 September 2003, p. 24.
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  • The euro has become a means by which superior German productivity is able to gain an absolutely unbeatable advantage over the whole eurozone territory.
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  • The excitement is growing so much I think the Geiger counter of Olympo-mania is going to go zoink off the scale.
    On the forthcoming London Olympic Games. Daily Telegraph, 27 July 2012.
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  • The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
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  • The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.
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  • The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
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  • The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
    The least said about Lib Dems, the better, Daily Telegraph, 25 September 2003, p. 24.
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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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  • The proposed ban on incitement to religious hatred makes no sense unless it involves a ban on the Koran itself; and that would be pretty absurd, when you consider that the Bill's intention is to fight Islamophobia.
    Daily Telegraph 21 July 2005
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  • The truth is that the history of the last couple of thousand years has been broadly repeated attempts by various people or institutions - in a Freudian way - to rediscover the lost childhood of Europe, this golden age of peace and prosperity under the Romans, by trying to unify it.
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  • The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.
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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.
    Face it: its all your own fat fault, Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2004, p. 24.
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  • This is an absolute turning point in the story of our country because I think if we go on with being enmeshed in the E.U., it will continue to erode our democracy. That is something that worries me.
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  • Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix, and stay conscious.
    Beth Pearson, Has Howard got news for Boris?, The Herald (Glasgow), 13 November 2004, p. 15.
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  • Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.
    Telegraph Column, Oct 21, 2008, endorsing Barack Obama
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  • We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.
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  • We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth.
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  • We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.
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  • We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country.
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