Quotes By Boris Johnson

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

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.

My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.

London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

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.

Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.

It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.

That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.

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

The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

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.

I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.

I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.

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.

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.

My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.

Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.

What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.

I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners.

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.

I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.

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

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

I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.

My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.