The job of mayor of London is unbelievably taxing, particularly in the run-up to the Olympics.

Humanity would have plunged into a new dark age of absolutely frightening and appalling characteristics without Churchill.

Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity.

Ping-pong was invented on the dining tables of England in the 19th century, and it was called Wiff-waff! And there, I think, you have the difference between us and the rest of the world. Other nations, the French, looked at a dining table and saw an opportunity to have dinner; we looked at it an saw an opportunity to play Wiff-waff.

I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

You are part of our Great British family.