John Major Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Major
John Major Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from John Major on Wise Famous Quotes.
The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.
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.
I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.
Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.
I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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.
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.
In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British nation.
What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
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.
The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.