Boris Johnson cytaty

Boris Johnson – brytyjski historyk i polityk, od 2008 do 2016 burmistrz Londynu, od 2016 minister spraw zagranicznych w rządzie Theresy May.

✵ 19. Czerwiec 1964
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Boris Johnson słynne cytaty

„Tak niedorzecznych pomysłów nie było w Europie, odkąd Dioklecjan próbował regulować ceny warzyw i owoców w cesarstwie rzymskim.”

o projekcie urzędowego ograniczenia premii dla finansistów z City.
Źródło: „Forum”, 11 marca 2013.

„Londyn jest dla miliarderów tym, czym dżungla na Sumatrze dla orangutanów. Możliwe nawet, że miliarderów u nas jest więcej niż tam orangutanów.”

o wielkich firmach, które płacą za pracę poniżej minimalnej stawki.
Źródło: Zabójcze puenty, „Forum” nr 16, 7–20 sierpnia 2015, s. 82.

„W 1904 roku 20% podróży w Londynie odbywało się na rowerach. Chcę, żeby tak było znowu. Jeśli nie można cofnąć zegara do 1904 roku, to jaki sens ma bycie konserwatystą?”

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? (ang.)
na otwarciu londyńskiego systemu rowerów publicznych 30 lipca 2010.
Źródło: Boris Johnson on South Bank for Barclays Cycle Hire launch http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4722, „London SE1”

„Borisie, pewien lord kazał uśpić swojego psa, kiedy uznał, że nie ma już z niego pożytku.”

Autorka: Theresa May
strofując swojego szefa dyplomacji.
Źródło: Powiedzieli, „Forum” nr 1, 11–19 stycznia 2017.

„Głosuj na mnie, a twoja żona będzie miała większy biust.”

Źródło: Borys Szalony, „Le Monde”, tłum. „Forum”, 26 kwietnia 2013.

„Wolałbym zdechnąć w rowie, niż po raz kolejny poprosić Unię o przedłużenie.”

Wypowiedź z kampanii wyborczej, w czasie której zapowiadał, że Wielka Brytania wyjdzie z Unii Europejskiej zgodnie z planem 31 października 2019, nawet jeśli do tego czasu nie uda się wynegocjować umowy dot. tego wystąpienia
Źródło: Premier Johnson nie podpisał listu do Donalda Tuska https://www.stefczyk.info/2019/10/20/premier-johnson-nie-podpisal-listu-do-donalda-tuska/

Boris Johnson: Cytaty po angielsku

“The only thing they've got to do is clear the dead bodies away”

Theresa May faces calls to sack Boris Johnson over Libya comments https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/03/sirte-can-become-a-holiday-destination-if-it-clears-the-dead-bodies-says-johnson, in the Guardian; published October 4, 2017
2017
Kontekst: There's a group of UK business people, wonderful guys who want to invest in. The only thing they've got to do is clear the dead bodies away and then they'll be there.

“I'm backing David Cameron's campaign out of pure, cynical self-interest.”

"Conference Diary", The Independent, 5 October 2005, p. 7.
On The 2005 Conservative Leadership Contest.
2000s, 2005

“As snow-jobs go, this beats the Himalayas.”

"The BBC was doing its job - bring back Gilligan", Daily Telegraph, 29 January 2004, p. 21.
Reaction to the Hutton Report.
2000s, 2004

“We can all 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… I’m afraid that there is such a rich thesaurus now of things that I have said that have been one way or another, through what alchemy I do not know, somehow misconstrued that it would take me too long to engage in a full global itinerary of apology to all concerned.”

in his first meeting with the press during visit by US Secretary of state John Kerry in July 2016 "Theresa May dodges question about Boris Johnson's use of racial slurs" http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pmqs-theresa-may-boris-johnson-racist-slur-picanninies-party-kenyan-obama-dodges-question-uk-foreign-a7146126.html, Independent (July 20, 2016); "Kerry poker-faced as press takes Johnson to task for 'outright lies'" http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07/20/politics/boris-johnson-john-kerry-presser/index.html, CNN (July 20, 2016)
2010s, 2016

“I have not had an affair with Petronella. It is complete balderdash. It is an inverted pyramid of piffle. It is all completely untrue and ludicrous conjecture. I am amazed people can write this drivel.”

Simon Walters, "Boris, Petsy and a 'pyramid of piffle'", Mail on Sunday, 7 November 2004, p. 7.
Denying accusations of his having an affair with Petronella Wyatt.
2000s, 2004

“Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power.”

"A wise guy playing the fool to win", Sunday Times, 16 July 2000, p. 17.
While at the Daily Telegraph, explaining why his work was usually late.
2000s, 2000

“My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.”

" Trust me, being sacked isn't all bad http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/12/02/do0202.xml", Daily Telegraph, 2 December 2004, p. 26.
On being sacked from the Tory front bench.
2000s, 2004

“Tremendous, little short of superb. On cracking form.”

David Charter, Joanna Bale, "Tories suggest door will open for Boris Johnson to return", The Times, 15 November 2004, p. 7.
Asked how he was feeling after being sacked as Shadow Arts Minister for having misled Michael Howard.
2000s, 2004

“If we left the EU, we would end this sterile debate, and we would have to recognise that most of our problems are not caused by “Bwussels”, but by chronic British short-termism, inadequate management, sloth, low skills, a culture of easy gratification and underinvestment in both human and physical capital and infrastructure.”

Telegraph article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10052646/Quitting-the-EU-wont-solve-our-problems-says-Boris-Johnson.html (12 May 2013)
Peking university, Beijing (14 October 2013) Joint speech to students http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/14/boris-johnson-charm-offensive-china
2010s, 2013

“Look, I wouldn't trust Harriet Harman's political judgement.”

" BBC News Video Interview http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7378792.stm", BBC News, 2nd May 2008
When told the Harriet Harman (Labour Politician) thought he had won the election for London Mayor.
2008

“What we hate, what we fear, is being ignored.”

On the fears of MPs.
Źródło: "Labour's cleaning up on the council tax", 21 April 2005, p. 24.

“He's lost the plot, people tell me. He's drifting rudderless in the wide Sargasso Sea of New Labour's ideological vacuum.”

"Blair dead in the water? No such luck", Daily Telegraph, 29 April 2004, p. 24.
On Tony Blair.
2000s, 2004

“I was just chucking these rocks over the garden wall, and I'd listen to this amazing crash from the greenhouse, next door, over, over in England, as everything I wrote from Brussels was having this amazing, explosive effect on the Tory Party, and it really gave me this, I suppose, rather weird sense of, of power.”

Interviewed on Desert Island Discs http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00935b6, first broadcast on 30 October 2005, about his early journalistic career working for The Times and then as Brussels correspondent for The Daily Telegraph. In fact, rather than failing to beat another trainee to win a permanent position, he was sacked for falsifying a quotation http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6901161.stm.
2000s, 2005

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