Boris Johnson Quotes
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Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.
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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.
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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.
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I want to win and I want to be in office.
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Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
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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.
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I don't see why he's any less of a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize than Barack Obama.
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And that brings me to my final thank you which is of course to the people of London.
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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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Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.
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I'm having Sunday lunch with my family. I'm vigorously campaigning, inculcating my children in the benefits of a Tory government.
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I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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I can't remember what my line on drugs is. What's my line on drugs?
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And as for Ken, Mayor Livingstone, I think you have been a very considerable public servant and a distinguished leader of this city.
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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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I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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I'm a one-nation Tory.
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I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.
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And when we have that drink together which we both so richly deserve, I hope we can discover a way in which the mayoralty can continue to benefit from your transparent love of London, a city whose energy conquered the world and which now brings the world together in one city.
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My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
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I think people have a legitimate right to minimise their tax obligations if they can, but they should pay their fair whack. I do think it's important to be transparent.
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I could not fail to disagree with you less.
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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.
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There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that.