John Major Quotes
- Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.
- Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
- 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.
- They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
- Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
- 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…
- 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.
- Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too…
- 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…
- My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
- My mother was the center of the family.
- The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
- 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…
- Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
- Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.
- Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
- When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
- 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…
- You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.