I think it's safe to say that Boris Johnson has had a very successful Games. Who else would get stuck in a zip wire in a good way? Who else would dance to the Spice Girls with such pizzazz? As such, I’ve selected some of my favourite Boris quotes from The Bigger Book of Boris, and for the special price of £5.00 you could have almost 200 pages of them. I would also strongly advise Prime Minister Boris, because, well, come on. You know it's going to happen.
1. 'I have been asked to have a go in it myself but I think it would be electorally inadvisable.'
On the new Olympic pool
2. 'Mr Blobby and Beethoven are yokemates of broadcasting destiny.'
16 September 2008
3. 'That’s one for the memoirs.'
Boris after he was rescued after being swept out to sea while swimming
4. 'Howard is a dynamic performer on many levels. There you are. He sent me to Liverpool. Marvellous place. Howard was the most effective Home Secretary since Peel. Hang on, was Peel Home Secretary?'
On Michael Howard, The Times, 19 April 2005
5. 'When I look at the streets of London I see a future for the planet, a model of cooperation and harmony between races and religions, in which barriers are broken down by tolerance, humour and respect – without giving way either to bigotry, or the petty balkanisation of the Race Relations industry.'
July 2007
6. 'Look, I wouldn't trust Harriet Harman's political judgement.'
When told that Harriet Harman thought he had won the election for London Mayor, BBC News, 2 May 2008
7. 'I’m kicking off my diet with a cheeseburger – whatever Jamie Oliver says, McDonald’s are incredibly nutritious and, as far as I can tell, crammed full of vital nutrients and rigid with goodness.'
While campaigning at McDonald’s in Botley, Oxford, May 2005
8. 'The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.'
On the Liberal Democrats
9. 'We will demonstrate that we are the party that cares about the older generation by propelling a man who is so full of vim he will give me a thrashing on the squash court and has nine-and-a-half grandchildren.'
Trying to get his dad elected in Teignbridge, 2005
10. 'Unlike the current occupant of the White House, he has no difficulty in orally extemporising a series of grammatical English sentences, each containing a main verb.'
Endorsing Barack Obama, Telegraph column, 21 October 2008