John Major Quotes

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John Major

Profession : Politician

Birth : March 29, 1943

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

John Major

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

John Major

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

John Major

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

John Major

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

John Major

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

John Major

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

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If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.

John Major

My mother was the center of the family.

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Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

John Major

If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.

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Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

John Major

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

John Major

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

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Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

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The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

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