Zitat des Tages von Boris Johnson:
I've got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any modern politician. The more you read about him, the more completely amazed you are about what he did - his energy, his literary fecundity, his ability to work - just unbelievable energy.
There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that.
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'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton.
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.
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.
I'm a one-nation Tory.
I've done eight years as mayor of London. I enjoyed it hugely; it was a massive privilege.
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.
I have not been more robust towards female rather than male assembly members and I do not believe I have been remotely sexist.
The idea that the EU is somehow the guarantor of peace on the continent - that is in itself rash, in my view, and risks undermining the vital role of Nato.
It just happens I write fast and always have done.
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.
One thing you have got to do politically is to identify the ties that bind society together and try to strengthen them.
I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
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.
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.
My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.
I love swimming in rivers, and well remember once jumping in at Chiswick.
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.
Never in my life did I think I would be congratulated by Mick Jagger for achieving anything.
What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.
I always believe writing is an indispensable part of one's political armoury.
I want London to be the most cycle-friendly city on Earth, and I want more people to be happy and safe on bicycles.
I want to win and I want to be in office.
My point was very simple, and it was that it is absolutely absurd for the United States of America to continue to urge us further down the line towards a federal superstate when the U.S. has not even signed up to the U.N. Convention on Human Rights.
London is the most commercially important city in Europe, and it's the most populous city. It should be for the whole of the European continent what New York is to America. That's what it should be.
I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done.
I am hoping very much to get re-elected but it is going to be a tough fight.
So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.
My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
We can find our voice in the world again: a voice that is commensurate with the fifth-biggest economy on Earth.
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. But in the end you have a great sense of personal dissatisfaction.