"I'm a one-nation Tory."
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Boris Johnson quotes (page 5 of 5)
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"I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country."
"The mayors fund for London will be a streamlined vehicle for getting money from the wealth creating sector to communities across London that are facing hardship and deprivation and are the victims of crime."
"When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe."
"As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister."
"I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work."
"The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth."
"I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people's attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show."
"You are part of our Great British family."
"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."
"I want to offer particular congratulations to Andrea Leadsom on her stunning achievement. She is now well placed to win and replace the absurd gloom in some quarters with a positive, confident and optimistic approach, not just to Europe, but to government all round."
"My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave it to the Americans to make money from a great British invention. I appeal to the children of this country and to their Potter-fiend parents to write to Warner Bros and Universal, and perhaps, even, to the great J K herself. Bring Harry home to Britain-and if you want a site with less rainfall than Rome, with excellent public transport, and strong connections to Harry Potter, I have just the place."
"If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere."
"I want to win and I want to be in office."
"I think it'd be disgraceful if a chap wasn't allowed to have a bit of fun in Las Vegas. The real scandal would be if you went to Vegas and you didn't misbehave in some trivial way."
"We should celebrate immigrants and everything they do for our country."
"Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious."