John Major quotes - page 3

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it. (John Major)
I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press. View quote
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If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future. View quote
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character. View quote
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When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances. View quote
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My mother was the center of the family. View quote
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I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. View quote
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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? View quote
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth. (John Major)
I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank. View quote
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I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good. View quote
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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein. View quote
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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. View quote
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I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't. View quote
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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen. View quote
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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. View quote
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Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe. (John Major)
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time. View quote
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