Boris Johnson Quotes
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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.
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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.
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One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
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I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.
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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.
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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
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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.
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Tremendous, little short of superb. On cracking form.
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Old Man Howard, that Old Man Howard, he just keeps rolling, just keeps rolling.
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It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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Any seat would be mad not to take him. He's a terrific chap.
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I would like to thank first the vast multitudes who voted against me - and I have met quite a few in the last nine months, not all of them entirely polite.
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I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
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If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.
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My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
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Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins.
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It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.
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Howard is a dynamic performer on many levels. There you are. He sent me to Liverpool. Marvellous place. Howard was the most effective Home Secretary since Peel. Hang on, was Peel Home Secretary?
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It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.
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The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative
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Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed.
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Not even Mr Blair has been able to erode the unions conviction that we all have a 'right' to a minimum wage… Both the minimum wage and the Social Charter would palpably destroy jobs.
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You shaped the office of mayor. You gave it national prominence and when London was attacked on 7 July 2005 you spoke for London.