Boris Quote of the Day

Chip

2007-11-14T16:15:00.000Z

"My ambition silicon chip has been programmed to try to scramble up this ladder, so I do feel a kind of sense that I have got to."

Boris describing his political ambitions, November 2005.

Hillary

2007-11-02T10:16:00.000Z

"I want Hillary Clinton to be president"

Boris, on his blog,November 2007

Fox

2007-10-29T09:36:00.000Z

"This is the Government that promised to build a New Britain, that told us that things could only get better, and what was their salient commitment to the nation yesterday, apart from some hoary old bilge about drunken yobbery? It was to pick on a small group of a few thousand eccentrics who like to potter around the countryside on their horses, endlessly breaking their collarbones, and to tell them that whatever they're doing, they mustnt.

This is government of the fox, for the fox, by the fox."

Boris , on the fox hunting ban.

Shakespeare

2007-10-25T09:54:00.000+01:00

"They stared back at me, open-mouthed, and the longer I churned the air, and the more sweat ran down my brow, the clearer it was that not a single concept had penetrated the vast anti-magnetic force field of their indifference."

Boris , on teaching Shakespeare to a class of Australian 16 year olds, April 2005.

Kilroy

2007-10-24T09:00:00.000+01:00

"She has succumbed to the charms of Robert Kilroy-Silk, he of the Aztec chiselled chin and skin the colour of marmalade."

Boris on Joan Collins supporting UKIP, June 2004

Essay

2007-10-22T15:17:00.000+01:00

"Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another".

Boris criticising GCSE coursework, in the Daily Telegraph, May 12th 2005

No

2007-10-19T11:51:00.000+01:00

"I look at these people in Washington, and I ask myself whether I trust them to embark on such a lunatically risky venture, and in the words of Amy Winehouse I say no, no, no."

Boris on War with Iran.

Rabbit

2007-10-18T16:44:00.000+01:00

"Out of the corner of his eye he can see David Cameron accepting the acclaim of his party, and the vox pops of the swing voters announcing that they have been won over. He turns it off at last, and a silence falls in the study, broken only by the soft, rabbit-like munching of cuticles."

Boris on Gordon Brown, Daily Telegraph, October 4th, 2007

Sniff

2007-10-17T10:09:00.000+01:00

"I did sniff him later on, and though there was an aroma of hot cassock he didn't seem notably drunk."

Boris on the Bishop of Southwark, in The Spectator, January, 2007.

Mouth

2007-10-16T09:17:00.000+01:00

"Suddenly my mood changed; suddenly I felt a sense of desolation and morosity that we had lost Tony Blair, and I can tell you the exact moment when I caught the bug and joined the national mourning. It was the moment Gordon Brown opened his mouth."

Boris on Tony Blair stepping down as PM, June 28, 2007

Piglet

2007-10-15T09:38:00.000+01:00

"There comes a moment in every Prime Minister's Questions when Tony Blair seems to wriggle off the hook. Houdini slips his chains. The greased piglet darts through the ring."

Boris on Tony Blair, March 2007

Schmaltz

2007-10-12T10:01:00.000+01:00

"It was like being drowned in molasses. It was like being hosed in treacle. I was lying in a state of after-lunch torpor while the eight-year-old was playing and replaying her favourite track, and through the door it stole, and up the bed and into my ear until it filled the fjords of my brain with such glutinous aspartame-flavoured schmaltz that at last I could take it no more and cried: Enough!!"

Boris, on hearing the music of James Blunt

Hat

2007-10-11T14:48:00.000+01:00

"Will I throw my hat into the ring? It depends on what kind of ring it is and what kind of hat I have in my hand."

Boris when asked by the Oxford Mail if he will stand for leader of the Conservative Party.

Cheeseburger

2007-10-10T10:58:00.000+01:00

"I'm kicking off my diet with a cheeseburger - whatever Jamie Oliver says, McDonald’s are incredibly nutritious and, as far as I can tell, crammed full of vital nutrients and rigid with goodness."

Boris while campaiging at McDonald's in Botley, Oxford, May 2005.

Portsmouth

2007-10-09T12:13:00.000+01:00

"Here we are, in one of the most depressed towns in Southern England, a place that is arguably too full of drugs, obesity, underacheivement and Labour MPs"

Boris , on the city of Portsmouth.

Vacuum

2007-10-08T09:33:00.000+01:00

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

Boris on the Liberal Democrats

Cannibalism

2007-10-06T12:42:00.001+01:00

"For 10 years we in the Tory Party have become used to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing, and so it is with a happy amazement that we watch as the madness engulfs the Labour Party"

After apologising for any offence, Boris said he would be happy to "add Papua New Guinea to my global itinerary of apology."

Breakdance

2007-10-05T09:22:00.000+01:00

"We can be as nice as pie, we can take our ties off and breakdance down the esplanade and all wear earrings and all the rest of it. It wont make any difference to the electorate if they dont think were going to offer a new and improved, basically Conservative approach to government."

Boris at the Conservative Party Conference, 2005

A ready supply of Johnsons

2007-10-04T10:28:00.000+01:00

"Vote Johnson, vote often - there is a ready supply of Johnsons waiting to step into whatever breaches are left in whatever constituencies"

Boris when visiting his father's Teignbridge constituency.

Comedy

2007-10-03T10:23:00.000+01:00

"For all this taste for comedy, he has done nothing as inherently comic as Mayor Livingstone’s risible cultivation of the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez. It should be asked: who is the real ‘joke candidate’ here?"

Boris in The Spectator, 21 July , 2007.

Fresh disasters

2007-10-02T14:58:00.000+01:00

"My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters."

On being sacked from the Tory front bench, December 2004.
Source: Daily Telegraph

A Big Girl's Blouse

2007-10-02T14:41:00.000+01:00

"If he fails to call it now then what will we say? We will say he's wimped out, we will say he's a big girl's blouse."

Boris on Gordon Brown and a snap election, Oct 2007, at a Conservative Party Conference fringe event
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