Boris Johnson Quotes

"My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it."

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

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

"We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe."

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

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

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

"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 have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I have with Winston Churchill."

"We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth."

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

"If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain's seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy."

"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."

"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."

"I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles."

"I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles."

"I believe we now have a glorious opportunity: we can pass our laws and set our taxes entirely according to the needs of the U.K. economy."

"I suppose with houses and assets, then I guess I would be a millionaire. But so are a lot of people."

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

"The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans."

"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. But in the end you have a great sense of personal dissatisfaction."

"I believe in immigration. But I feel people think it would be better if there was an Australian-style points based system so we could actually get a good system."

"I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done."

"I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court."

"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."

"It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it."

"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."

"I'm a one-nation Tory."

"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."

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