Boris Johnson Quotes

Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.

The rail service is important for my district.

Nobody, in any part of the world, has figured out a way to make money on passenger railroads. It's a matter of social policy.

There is no passenger railroad service anywhere in the world that is not subsidized.

Memo to self: never again try to travel by train in Britain on a Sunday.

And I can tell you from firsthand experience that our train system is a mess. Carriages are full of unhappy travellers packed together like sardines, who have inexplicably paid for the privilege of being incarcerated.

The wild Irish … are barbarous and most filthy in their diet.

The pope is a detestable shoveling, the right Anti-Christ and general ambitious tyrant over all right principalities, and patron of the diabolical faith.

The Irish on both sides are giving me a lot of trouble just at a difficult moment…. I sometimes wish we could submerge the whole lot of them and their Island for say, ten years, under the waves of the Atlantic.

... the Austrians are quite the stupidest people in Europe … and there is a brutality to their mode of performance …

The Pope is a son of a bitch.

I'd like to get rid of those streetcars, maybe phase them out. I'm not sure how we're going to do it but I'd like to slowly but surely get rid of those streetcars and maybe replace them with buses.

I travel a lot with work... to and from Cornwall and Bristol, so I find myself on lots of trains.

You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.

I'm of that subset of native New Yorkers who can't drive.

I think one of the things about railways, if you get on a train you do find - as you come into Paddington, or wherever - you look into people's windows in a way that you just can't do in a car or any other way.

It's kind of beautiful to sit inside a bus and see a city from the windows.

In L.A., it's the sort of city where you have to have a car to get around.

I love walking everywhere I go and following City Mapper.

Rail in Europe is incredibly important as far as a transportation medium.

We are building towards the future where people need not own their own cars.

For me, a taxi is like a public space because so many people get in that space.

Unlike Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party, I am not ideologically obsessed with the structure of our rail network; for me it is a matter of practicality.

If I'm going to Kilburn, I get on a bus.

One of my priorities is getting the trains to run on time, and as a commuter myself I understand all too well the frustration caused by endless delays and cancellations.