Johnson: "If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere."

Johnson: "It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them."

Johnson: "Sometimes I can think of so many ways of expressing myself that I feel I'm an old typewriter, and too many keys come forward at once - and I get jammed."

Johnson: "My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it."

Johnson: "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."

Johnson: "I'm a one-nation Tory."

Johnson: "My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg."

Johnson: "I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis."

Johnson: "There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge."

Johnson: "My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters."

Johnson: "If you turn a blind eye to fare evasion, if you accustom people to getting away with minor crime, you are making it more likely that they will go on to commit more serious crimes. That is why we have so much disorder in London. It is a disgrace."

Johnson: "I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done."

Johnson: "If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain's seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy."

Johnson: "I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work."

Johnson: "I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won't even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the International Criminal Court."

Johnson: "I've always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do."

Johnson: "I used to get very, very frustrated by people being told what to do by nanny in Brussels. And I remember once I rang the official who was actually responsible for banning the prawn-cocktail-flavoured crisp, which I think contained a dye called Arithrazine or something like that."

Johnson: "So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy."

Johnson: "I promised to run the most open and transparent administration in Britain. That is why, with this brutally honest and unprecedented progress report, I am determined to level with Londoners."

Johnson: "I want to win and I want to be in office."