I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.
— Boris Johnson
London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.
I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.
The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
I want to win and I want to be in office.
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
Times have been tough, the economy has been tough. But I want to bring forward a fantastic manifesto for taking the city forwards.
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 swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
I'm a one-nation Tory.
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
If we get outside the EU, if we leave the EU system, we will be relieved of a huge amount of unnecessary regulation that is holding this country back. We will be able to set our own priorities, make our own laws and set our own tax policies to suit the needs of this country. We have a huge opportunity also to make people's votes count for more.
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.
That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.
I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.
We are experiencing such large support for the Olympic relay that our advice is to stay in your neighbourhood, stay in your borough and wait for it to come near you.
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.
So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.
Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
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.
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.
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
