John Major Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

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“You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.”
-- John Major

#Queens #Doe #Forget
“When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.”
-- John Major

#Wall #Fighting #Turns
“Recovery begins from the darkest moment.”
-- John Major

#Life #Recovery #Moments
“Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.”
-- John Major

#Needs #Littles
“The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.”
-- John Major

#Mistake #Decision #Politician
“Disunity costs votes.”
-- John Major

#Cost #Vote #Disunity
“Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.”
-- John Major

#Country
“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.”
-- John Major

#Country #Army #Years
“The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.”
-- John Major

#War #Men #Regimes
“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.”
-- John Major

#Knowing #Long #Goes On
“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.”
-- John Major

#Running #Block #Community
“Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.”
-- John Major

#Forever #Actors #Comic
“They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.”
-- John Major

#Europe #Britain #Moved
“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

#Europe #Greek #Pay
“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.”
-- John Major

#Country #Years #Next
“Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere”
-- John Major

#Terrorism #Tentacles #Spread
“Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.”
-- John Major

#Eye #People #Tell Me The Truth
“Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.”
-- John Major

#Europe #Effectiveness #Concern
“Political suicide can end a career.”
-- John Major

#Suicide #Careers #Political
“If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.”
-- John Major

#Asking #Answers #Politician
“Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on cricket grounds, warm beer, invincible green suburbs, dog lovers and pools fillers and, as George Orwell said, 'Old maids bicycling to holy communion through the morning mist' and, if we get our way, Shakespeare will still be read even in school.”
-- John Major

#Country #Dog #Morning
“Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British Â£5 and they will borrow Â£25 and spend it.”
-- John Major

#Business #Giving #Debt
“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.”
-- John Major

#Jobs #Dollars #Pounds
“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.”
-- John Major

#Sports #Art #Government
“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.”
-- John Major

#Lying #Moving #Mean
“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.”
-- John Major

#Reading #Character #Years
“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.”
-- John Major

#Hands #British #Behalf
“When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.”
-- John Major

#Party #Fundraising #Office
“Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.”
-- John Major

#Thinking #Distinction #Wells
“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.”
-- John Major

#War #Men #Years

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