John Major quotes - page 2

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. (John Major)
All my adult life I have seen British governments driven off their virtuous pursuit of low inflation by market problems or political pressures. I was under no illusions when I took Britain into the ERM. I said at the time that membership was no soft option. The soft option, the devaluer's option, the inflationary option, that would in my opinion be a betrayal of Britain's future. View quote
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We will do precisely what the British nation has done all through its history when it had its back against the wall - turn round and fight for the things it believes in, and that is what I shall do. View quote
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Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less. View quote
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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision. View quote
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Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Disunity costs votes. View quote
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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. View quote
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Oh, Lord, if I must die today, Please make it after Close of Play. For this, I know, if nothing more, I will not go, without the score... (John Major)
The man who ran away from the circus to become an accountant. View quote
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Life is full of surprises. View quote
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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community. View quote
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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. View quote
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. View quote
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The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. View quote
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Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence. View quote
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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge. View quote
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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. View quote
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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. (John Major)
Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors. View quote
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism. View quote
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Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict. View quote
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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. View quote
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