John Major

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

— John Major

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

— John Major

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does…

— John Major

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they…

— John Major

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her…

— John Major

I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

— John Major

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I…

— John Major

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.

— John Major

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

— John Major

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

— John Major

I want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country…

— John Major

If is a very big preposition.

— John Major

It is time to return to those core values, time to get back to basics: to self-discipline and respect for the law,…

— John Major

I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

— John Major

Disunity costs votes.

— John Major

Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in…

— John Major

I would rather go while I am being urged to stay, than to stay beyond the time when I should go.

— John Major

You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

— John Major

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people…

— John Major

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them…

— John Major

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers…

— John Major

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

— John Major

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion…

— John Major

When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.

— John Major

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

— John Major