John Major Quotes

• 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.

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  Tags in Crisis, Happen, Value

• Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

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• Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

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  Tags in Did, Tell

• There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

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  Tags in Black, Ever, Wednesday

• The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It’s played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ than voted in the general election.

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  Tags in Government, Come

• 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.

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  Tags in Used, Republican

• The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

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  Tags in Change, War, Bad

• September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.

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  Tags in Time, Home, United

• My mother was the center of the family.

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  Tags in Center

• My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

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  Tags in Late

• 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.

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  Tags in Others, Turn

• 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.

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  Tags in Down, Wrong, Opinion

• 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.

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  Tags in Time, Good, Men

• 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.

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  Topics in Health, Money

  Tags in Government

• If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.

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  Topics in Economy, Future

  Tags in Need

• 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.

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  Tags in Parents, Proud

• I’m not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

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  Tags in Time, Long, Write

• I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.

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

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

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John Major (55)

Birth:	29th March, 1943
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician

About

Sir John Major was born in St Helier, London, England. He is a British politician. He served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He served as Foreign Secretary and then Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Thatcher Government from 1989 to 1990. He was a member of Parliament for Huntingdon from 1979-2001. He studied at Rutlish School, a grammar school in the London Borough of Merton. He married Norma Johnson in 1970. They have two children.

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