Frases de Boris Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson [1]​ es un autor, periodista y político británico. Miembro del Partido Conservador, fue alcalde de Londres de 2008 a 2016 y ministro de Asuntos Exteriores del Reino Unido entre 2016 y 2018.

Tras retirar por sorpresa su candidatura para suceder a David Cameron como líder del Partido Conservador y, por consiguiente, para ser el nuevo primer ministro del Reino Unido,[2]​ el 13 de julio de 2016 fue nombrado secretario de Estado para Relaciones Exteriores y de la Mancomunidad en el primer Gabinete formado por la nueva primera ministra, Theresa May.[3]​

✵ 19. junio 1964
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Frases célebres de Boris Johnson

“La vida no es como un curso, bebé. Es una maldita crisis de ensayo tras otra.”

Fuente: «Exams work because they're scary.» 12 de mayo de 2005. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2008-5-12.html Daily Telegraph. Consultado el 27 de julio de 2019.

“El pueblo británico no tendrá miedo de respaldar un lamentable trato con el brexit por el que nadie votó.”

Fuente: «Brexit: Boris Johnson 'wrong on no-deal polling claim'.» 12 de abril de 2019. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47913555 BBC News. Consultado el 27 de julio de 2019.

“Pero aquí está el viejo Ken: ha sido grosero, ha sido insensible, torpe y brutal en su lenguaje, pero no creo que en realidad si leíste lo que dijo, aunque fue extraordinario y grosero, no creo que en realidad fuera anti-semítico.”

"Quotes of the Day", The Times, 18 de febrero de 2005, p. 2.
Fuente: GALE, archivo digital para The Times. 11 de marzo de 2005. https://www.gale.com/intl/c/the-times-digital-archive Consultado el 27 de julio de 2019.

Boris Johnson Frases y Citas

“Algunos lectores sin duda dirán que un demonio está dentro de mí; y aunque mi fe es un poco como Magic FM en Chilterns, en que la señal viene y se va, solo puedo esperar que no sea así.”

"What's so funny about the Passion?", Daily Telegraph, 4 de marzo de 2004, p. 24.
Fuente: Telegraph.co, archivo digital. 4 de marzo de 2002. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2004-3-4.html Consultado el 27 de julio de 2019.

“Olvidé que confiar en un tren, en la Gran Bretaña de Blair, es jugar a los dados con el diablo.”

Original: «I forgot that to rely on a train, in Blair's Britain, is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil».
Fuente: Daily Telegraph, 3 de julio 2003
Fuente: «A horse is a safer bet than the trains.» 3 de julio de 2003. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2002-1-10.html Daily Telegraph. Consultado el 29 de julio de 2019.

“Sí, el cannabis es peligroso, pero no más que otras drogas perfectamente legales. Es hora de un replanteamiento, y la fiesta Tory, la fiesta más funky y más divertida de la Tierra, es donde está sucediendo.”

"No one obeys the speed limit except a motorised rickshaw". Daily Telegraph, 12 de julio de 2001, p. 27.
Fuente: Telegraph.co, archivo digital. 12 de julio de 2001. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2001-7-12.html Consultado el 27 de julio de 2019.

“Quisiera agradecer primero a las vastas multitudes que votaron en mi contra, y me he reunido con algunas en los últimos nueve meses. No todos ellos educados.”

"No one obeys the speed limit except a motorised rickshaw". Daily Telegraph, 12 de julio de 2001, p. 27.
Fuente: Telegraph.co, archivo digital. 12 de julio de 2001. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2001-7-12.html Consultado el 27 de julio de 2019.

“Las fuerzas oscuras me arrastraron lejos del teclado, girando fuerzas de intensidad y poder irresistibles.”

"A wise guy playing the fool to win", Sunday Times, 16 de julio de 2000, p. 17.
Mientras estaba en el Daily Telegraph, explicando por qué su trabajo solía llegar tarde.
Fuente: GALE, archivo digital para The Times. 16 de julio de 2000. https://www.gale.com/intl/c/the-times-digital-archive Consultado el 27 de julio de 2019.

“La atroz agenda de los trabajadores, alentando la enseñanza de la homosexualidad en las escuelas, y todo lo demás.”

Fuente: Archivo. 15 de abril de 2000. http://archive.spectator.co.uk/search?term=&first-month=Feb&first-year=2002&last-month=Mar&last-year=2002 The Spectator. Consultado el 27 de julio de 2019.

Boris Johnson: Frases en inglés

“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
Contexto: 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.
Fuente: "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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