Boris Johnson has never been short of something to say.
From his time as a journalist with the Telegraph or the Spectator, to London Mayor, MP for Henly on Thames and Prime Minister, he has had plenty to say on any range of subjects.
Here are nine Boris Johnson quotes through the years.
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"I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis."
“My argument to the Treasury is that a pound spent in Croydon is of far more value to the country from a strict utilitarian calculus than a pound spent in Strathclyde.”
“My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.”
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“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?”
“I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest.”
“Okay, Darry, I said I’ll do it. I’ll do it, don’t worry,” when asked by his friend Darius Guppy to get an address so he could have a journalist attacked and given “a couple of black eyes” and a “cracked rib”.
"I don't see why he's any less of a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize than Barack Obama," on Donald Trump.
“I believed implicitly that this was a work event,” on attending a party in Downing Street during Lockdown.
“I was at a hospital the other night where I think there were a few coronavirus patients and I shook hands with everybody, you will be pleased to know, and I continue to shake hands,” in March 2020, before putting Britain into lockdown.
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