I’m not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language. Boris Johnson Read Quote
I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist. Boris Johnson Read Quote
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. Boris Johnson Read Quote
If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn’t ever get anywhere. Boris Johnson Read Quote
I’m made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn’t I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else? Boris Johnson Read Quote
It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it. Boris Johnson Read Quote
When lorry drivers come up behind me and I’m cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do. Boris Johnson Read Quote
What I really think about Banksy is I think he’s a genius; he’s a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he’s got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work. Boris Johnson Read Quote
The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two. Boris Johnson Read Quote
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. Boris Johnson Read Quote
