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Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British Conservative Party politician, who has served as Mayor of London since 2008.

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– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 8 hours ago World

Do I think that MPs are now psychologically ready to get this thing over the line? ... Yes I do.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 8 hours ago World

We should come out well before the next election.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 8 hours ago World

Relations between the UK and the U.S. are incredibly important but if you are the leader of great multi-racial, multi-cultural society you simply cannot use that kind of language about sending people back to where they came from, so it is totally unacceptable.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 2 days ago Top News

(Darroch) said that what somebody had relayed to him had certainly been a factor in his resignation, i think unfortunately what I said on that TV debate was misrepresented to Kim.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 5 days ago Politics

What has changed now is that there is a different approach to the negotiations, a new optimism about what we can do, a new spirit of determination to come properly out of the EU and to get a fantastic deal, why can't we rely on the common sense and goodwill of both parties to get this done?

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 5 days ago Politics

We've got to find a way of taxing the internet giants on their income, because at the moment it is simply unfair.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 5 days ago Technology

I cant dissent from that, when it comes to the context of what the president has said about the Brexit deal, I find it hard to disagree.

– Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News 6 days ago World

I think it's deeply unfair that high street businesses are paying tax through the nose... whereas the internet giants, the FAANGs — Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google — are paying virtually nothing, we've got to find a way of taxing the internet giants on their income, because at the moment it is simply unfair.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 13 days ago Technology

We should not be doing anything that will deter cooperation with our most valuable intelligence partners, the Five Eyes.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 19 days ago Technology

If we fail again, if we kick the can down the road on 31st October, if we continue to delay, if we treat this as a fake deadline, just yet another rigmarole, then I think the voters will be very frustrated indeed, and I think that our party, the Conservative Party, which I fought for a very long time across this country, I think that we will not easily recover.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 21 days ago World

I think it would be very bizarre if the EU should decide on their own... if they decided to impose tariffs on goods coming from the UK it would be... a return to Napoleon's continental system.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 22 days ago Top News

I do not talk about stuff involving my family, my loved ones, and there's a very good reason for that. That is that, if you do, you drag them into things that, really, is, in a way that is not fair on them.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 23 days ago Top News

My pledge is to come out of the EU at Halloween on 31 October.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 23 days ago Top News

The way to get our friends and partners to understand how serious we are is finally, I'm afraid, to abandon the defeatism and negativity that has enfolded us in a great cloud for so long and to prepare confidently and seriously for a WTO or no-deal outcome.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 23 days ago Top News

Let me tell you, there are abundant, abundant technical fixes that can be introduced to make sure that you don't have to have checks at the border.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 23 days ago Top News

We have a choice to make now, and that means choosing between options that actually exist, it is very painful to vote for this deal. But I hope we can now work together to remedy its defects.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

The euro is a calamitous project, it will limp on with sclerotic growth rates, it will eventually blow up but I wouldn't care to bet when.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

I am not by any means an ultra-eurosceptic. In some ways, I am a bit of a fan of the European Union. If we did not have one, we would invent something like it.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

The EU would be a lobster ... because the EU, by the very way it works, encourages its participating members to order the lobster at the joint meal because they know that the bill is going to be settled by everybody else - normally by the Germans.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

I'm rather pro-European, actually. I certainly want a European community where one can go and scoff croissants, drink delicious coffee, learn foreign languages and generally make love to foreign women.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

I always thought it was extraordinary that we should agree to write that entire cheque before having a final deal. In getting a good deal, money is a great solvent and a great lubricant.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

Conservatives must deliver Brexit by 31st October or we risk Brexit Party votes delivering Corbyn to No 10.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 month ago World

We will leave the EU on October 31, deal or no deal.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 month ago Top News

Of course I'm going to go for it.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 2 months ago World

Brexit is becoming soft to the point of disintegration.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 months ago Top News

Take out, excise, surgically remove the backstop, OK? thats the problem, thats the lobster pot, thats the trap that keeps us locked in the customs union and means we have this terrible Hobsons choice between, as it were, sacrificing Northern Ireland orremaining subject to the E.U. without having any say in the E.U.

– Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News 6 months ago World

It is not the right way forward, there's a better deal to be done, there's no point in leaving European Union if you end up being run by European Union.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 8 months ago World

It is vassal state stuff, chuck it out.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 8 months ago World

To present the nation with a choice between two deeply unattractive outcomes, vassalage and chaos, is a failure of British statecraft on a scale unseen since the Suez crisis.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 8 months ago World

Given that the reality of Brexit has turned out to be so far from what was once promised, the democratic thing to do is to give the public the final say.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 8 months ago World

The Sun's not for me to say what they should be doing in the UK.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I've had very good discussions with my French, German and Dutch counterparts, many other counterparts here, explaining to them that this is the way we get that deep and special partnership with Europe.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

It's really kind of irrelevant to what we're trying to do, and it certainly doesn't express the opinion of the British people that I've met.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Brexit should be about opportunity and hope, that dream is dying, suffocated by needless self-doubt.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

We are truly headed for the status of a colony - and many will struggle to see the economic or political advantage of that particular arrangement.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

Imagine President Trump doing Brexit, president Trump ’d go in bloody hard … There ’d be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think President Trump ’d gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere. It’s a very, very good thought.

– Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

Project Fear is really working on them. They’re terrified of this nonsense. It’s all mumbo jumbo.

– Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

Imagine Trump doing Brexit, he'd go in bloody hard ... There'd be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think he'd gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere. It's a very, very good thought.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

Imagine Donald Trump doing Brexit, i have become more and more convinced that there is method in Donald Trump madness.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

What they don't want is friction at the border, they don't want any interruption of the economy. So they're sacrificing all the medium - and long-term gains out of fear of short term disruption, they're terrified of this nonsense. It's all total mumbo jumbo.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

We will continue to tighten the squeeze on some of the oligarchs who surround Putin.

– Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

You throw a stone in Kensington and you'll hit an oligarch, some of them are close to Putin and some of them aren't.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

I want to stress that that does not mean we are in any sense not going to be working with the Americans.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

It's totally untried and would make it very, very difficult to do free trade deals, if you have the new customs partnership, you have a crazy system whereby you end up collecting the tariffs on behalf of the EU at the UK frontier.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

If they do get a nuclear weapon, you're going to get an arms race in the Middle East, you're going to have the Saudis wanting one, the Egyptians wanting one, the Emiratis. It's already a very, very dangerous state at the moment, we don't want to go down that road. There doesn't seem to me at the moment to be a viable military solution.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

At this moment Britain is working alongside the Trump administration and our French and German allies to ensure that they are.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

...At this moment Britain is working alongside the Trump administration and our French and German allies to ensure that they are, i am sure of one thing: every available alternative is worse. The wisest course would be to improve the handcuffs rather than break them.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

On so many of the world's foreign policy challenges the UK and U.S. are in lockstep, the UK, U.S., and European partners are also united in our effort to tackle the kind of Iranian behavior that makes the Middle East region less secure - its cyber activities, its support for groups like Hezbollah, and its dangerous missile program, which is arming Houthi militias in Yemen.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

One of the key things we're doing is looking again at ... how we strengthen our collective response to the kind of hybrid attacks that so many NATO allies are experiencing from Russia.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

What we decided ... was that we were going to set up a G7 group that would look at Russian malign behavior in all its manifestations - whether it's cyber warfare, whether it's disinformation, assassination attempts, whatever it happens to be, and collectively try to call it out.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

We accept that Iranian behavior has been disruptive in the region, we accept the president has some valid points that need to be addressed, but we believe they are capable of being addressed (inside the deal).

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

We accept that Iranian behavior has been disruptive in the region, we accept the president (Trump) has some valid points that need to be addressed but we believe they are capable of being addressed (inside the deal).

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

President Mnangagwa has been in power for 150 days and while Zimbabwe has made impressive progress, there is still much to do, that's why Britain, the Commonwealth and the wider international community will do everything it can in supporting Zimbabwe on its path of reform.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

The Zimbabwe government must deliver the free and fair elections the people of Zimbabwe deserve and which it has promised.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

The UK stands ready in friendship to support a Zimbabwe that fully embraces the rule of law, human rights and economic reform.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

There can be no doubt what was used and there remains no alternative explanation about who was responsible – only Russia has the means, motive and record.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago World

Very disappointed to hear Burmese @Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo and Wa Lone are now to face trial, reiterate my calls for their release: Burmese authorities must show their commitment to media freedom.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

We have evidence that Russia has been investigating delivery of nerve agents and has been creating and stockpiling Novichok.

– Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Latest Headlines

[ Trump ] was voted into office by millions of Americans – not bad people, but on the whole good and kindly people with whom we are connected by old ties of blood and friendship and with whom we have the single most extraordinary economic relationship.

– Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

A process that has been stalled for years, if not decades, could see some progress. And everybody is very interested to see what the United States comes up with.

– Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News 1 year ago Politics

My point was that I disagreed with the Iranian view that training journalists was a crime, not that I wanted to lend any credence to Iranian allegations that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been engaged in such activity.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 1 year ago Top News

We can spend an awfully long time going over lots of stuff that I've written over the last 30 years ... all of which in my view have been taken out of context, but never mind, but some serious issues call us today.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 2 years ago Company News

Andrea Leadsom offers the zap, the drive, and the determination essential for the next leader of this country, she has specialized in the EU question ... and will be therefore well-placed to help forge a great post-Brexit future for Britain and Europe.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

She has specialized in the EU question ... and will be therefore well-placed to help forge a great post-Brexit future for Britain and Europe.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

The economy is in good hands, most sensible people can see that Bank of England governor Mark Carney has done a superb job – and now that the referendum is over, he will be able to continue his work without being in the political firing-line.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

If we don't vote to leave tomorrow we will remain locked in the back of the car, driven in an uncertain direction, frankly, to a place we don't want to go and perhaps by a driver who doesn't speak the very best of English.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically, the EU is an attempt to do this by different methods. But fundamentally what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Top News

It's a question of democracy, i would like a situation where the government can fulfill its pledges to the people.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

What is happening at the moment is being done completely without the consent of the British people.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically, dEMOCRATIC VOID.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

If you want an example of EU foreign policy-making on the hoof, and of the EU's pretensions to running a defense policy that have caused real trouble, then look at what has happened in Ukraine.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

For the last few years I have said clearly if we didn't get reform we should be prepared to walk away. I think we now have a golden opportunity to shrug off a regulatory legislative burden that is profoundly undemocratic, we have got a once in a lifetime opportunity, which will not come again, to strike a new series of relationships, free trade deals with the growth economies around the world, whilst maintaining ... our free trade advantages with the European Union.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

Let us lift our eyes to the horizon and take a once in a lifetime opportunity. Ignore the scaremongers, we are bigger, better and greater than they pretend.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Most Read Articles

Both Boris and Cameron have described this to me -- Boris claims he won the wrestling match and Cameron claims he won.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Politics

I will be advocating Vote Leave.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 3 years ago Top News

The PM's suggestion was modest, and sensible. It has been recklessly disregarded. This country could have a viable and exciting future outside the present EU arrangements. If we are going to stay, we need reform; and if the Danes can have their special circumstances recognized, so can Britain.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago World

Large parts of the media, large parts of the media will remain resolutely skeptical, if not hostile... suddenly, as the event itself draws near, their mood will change and it will be as if the sun has come out.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Sports

The figures teased out of their report on the fall in domestic and even long-haul connectivity show that as a nation, by expanding Heathrow, we would merely be investing in decline, their report very clearly shows that a third runway will fail both London and the UK on every level.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 3 years ago Industrials

The security services are trying to keep us safe, they can not conceivably be blamed for their actions in trying to prevent people from committing absolutely sick atrocities against the British public and indeed against innocent people in Syria and Iraq.

– Boris Johnson

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

She thought in particular that we in Britain should be less dependent on Russian hyrdrocarbons and she thought we should get on with seeking alternative sources, her general anxiety was that Putin, if unchallenged and unchecked, would continue to expand his influence in the perimeter of what was the Soviet Union. I was very, very struck by that.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

One thing in particular she really wanted to get across -- that was she thought the Europeans were being too wimpy in dealing with Putin.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

I was struck by the firmness with which she wanted us in Britain to stick it, to take it to Putin.

– Boris Johnson

Found on CNN 4 years ago Politics

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