Quote

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

Boris Johnson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Boris Johnson
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: June 19
Blogger
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Mayor Of London
Politician
Writer
New York City
New York
Boris
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson
BoJo
Bo Jo
Back
London
Made
Conservative
Like
Figure
Figures
Journeys
Journey
Cent
Turn
Bicycle
Turns
Cents
Point
Clock

More quotes by Boris Johnson

Image
The Geiger-counter of Olympomania is going to go zoink off the scale.
Boris Johnson
Image
You are part of our Great British family.
Boris Johnson
Image
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas.
Boris Johnson
Image
I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
Boris Johnson
Image
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
Boris Johnson
Image
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.
Boris Johnson
Image
My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg.
Boris Johnson
Image
All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
Boris Johnson
Image
When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.
Boris Johnson
Image
Our friends in America will be at the front of the queue for trade deals.
Boris Johnson
Image
I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
Boris Johnson
Image
As a Scot Gordon Brown will find it hard to convince people in England he should be prime minister.
Boris Johnson
Image
My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
Boris Johnson
Image
I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.
Boris Johnson
Image
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
Boris Johnson
Image
London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.
Boris Johnson
Image
I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
Boris Johnson
Image
I dont see why people are so snooty about Channel Five. It has some respectable documentaries about the Second World War. It also devotes considerable airtime to investigations into lap-dancing, and other related and vital subjects
Boris Johnson
Image
Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.
Boris Johnson
Image
My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better.
Boris Johnson