Boris Johnson Biography

"It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall." Johnson on Tony Blair.

“The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition." Johnson on his rivals in the Liberal Democrats.

"My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters." Johnson speaking in his Telegraph column 2nd December 2004 on being sacked from the Tory front bench.

"What’s my view on drugs? I’ve forgotten my view on drugs." Johnson speaking during the campaign trail of the 2005 general election.

"The President is a cross-eyed Texan warmonger, unelected, inarticulate, who epitomises the arrogance of American foreign policy." Johnson's view of George Bush.

"I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest." Johnson on The 2005 Conservative leadership contest.

"Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3."

"I didn’t see it, but it sounds barbaric. It’s become like cock-fighting: poor dumb brutes being set upon each other by conniving television producers." Johnson on Big Brother.

"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive." Johnson on his hopes of leading the country.