John Major Quotes
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It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family, and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.
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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.
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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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"Government gets things right" does not encourage sales. "Government makes another blunder" does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
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When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
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I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.
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Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.
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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.
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Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
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You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.
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What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
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Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.
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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.
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
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Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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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.
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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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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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The world has gone through tremendous change recently; both nationally andinternationally.
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A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.
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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
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You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.
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Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
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