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. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
If gay marriage was OK ... then I saw no reason in principle why a union should not be consecrated between three men, as well as two men; or indeed three men and a dog. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm afraid Sadiq Khan is completely wrong. The European Court of Justice is the supreme legal authority in our country. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe in immigration. But I feel people think it would be better if there was an Australian-style points based system so we could… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
The next Tory leader would have to unify his party and ensure that Britain stood tall in the world. — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
This is not a time to quail, it is not a crisis, nor should we see it as an excuse for wobbling or self-doubt.… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
Churchill decides from very early on that he will create a political position that is somehow above left and right, embodying the best points… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
