186 Quotes by Boris Johnson

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

My hero is the mayor in Jaws. He's a fantastic guy, and he keeps the beaches open, if you remember, even after it's demonstrated that his constituents have been eaten by this killer fish. Of course, he was proved catastrophically wrong in his judgment, but his instincts were right.'Boris Johnson is the mayor of London.Taken from Time Magazine interview: June 25, 2012; page 76.

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.

There are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.

Augustine said he wept more for the death of Dido than he did for the death of his own saviour. What about Book Four, the best book of the best poem of the best poet?

Sometimes, in our thinking about higher education, we're too narrowly confined to a utilitarian calculus about what it's doing to the bottom line of UK plc. I wanted to make the point that higher education adds immeasurably to the value of the UK economy without necessarily obliging everybody to pursue courses that have some immediate vocational application. I wanted to stick up for medieval history, among other things, which was deprecated by Charles Clarke.

It's economically illiterate. A degree in classics or philosophy can be as valuable as anything else.

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

It's very, very good news for Cameron. He's going to storm through, I've absolutely no doubt he's going to be Prime Minister.