John Major Quotes

• So right. OK. We lost.

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  Tags in Okay

• I think that we had better start again, somewhere else.

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  Tags in Again

• I hope…to build a society of opportunity. By opportunity, I mean an open society—a society in which what people fulfil will depend upon their talent, their application, and their good fortune. What people achieve should depend particularly on those things, and I hope increasingly in the future that that will be the case.

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  Topics in Opportunity, Uncategorized

• You’ve had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you’ve had a very dubious policy being followed.

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  Tags in Weak, Policy, Foreign

• You don’t forget crises and neither does the Queen.

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  Tags in Forget, Neither, Queen

• 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.

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  Tags in Nation, Whether, Hands

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

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  Tags in Wrong, Born, Economic

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

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  Tags in Done, Office, Party

• Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

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  Tags in Peace, Mind, Pretty

• What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

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  Tags in Between, Happens, Conflict

• Well, I think there’s a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

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  Tags in Between

• Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

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  Tags in Europe, Compete, Concerns

• 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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  Tags in Conflict, British, Troops

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

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  Topics in Truth

  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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  Topics in Politics

  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.

  John Major

  Topics in Country

  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.

  John Major

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Home, United

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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