Boris Johnson

“We were told by President Obama that in respect of international trade, we would have to get to the back of the queue - not a position that America normally requires the United Kingdom to be in when it comes to other matters, such as the Iraq War.”

“We cannot turn our backs on Europe. We are part of Europe.”

“I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else?”

“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.”

“But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors.”

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

“The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.”

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

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

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

“The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.”

“When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.”

“What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.”

“I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.”

“התרבות והאמנות הגבוהה הסינית היא כמעט תמיד חיקוי של המערב. פסנתרנים סינים הם מבריקים מבחינה טכנית, אך הם מבצעים את שוברט ורחמנינוב.”

“מה שאנו שונאים ומפחדים ממנו הוא שיתעלמו מאיתנו.”

“הגיע הזמן לרפורמה אמיתית. הדרך היחידה להגיע לכך היא לעזוב [את האיחוד האירופי].”

“איננו יכולים להפנות את גבנו לאירופה. אנחנו חלק מאירופה.”

“בואו נבצע את הברקסיט.”

“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.”