John Major Quotes

• My mother was the center of the family.

  John Major

  Topics in Family, Mother

  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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  Topics in Father, Mother

  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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  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.

  John Major

  Topics in Uncategorized

  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.

  John Major

  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.

  John Major

  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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Parents, Proud

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

  John Major

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Long, Write

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

  John Major

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Community, Weight, Britain

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

  John Major

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Thought, Before

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

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  Topics in Respect

  Tags in Back, Providing

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

  John Major

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Need, Still

• I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.

  John Major

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Made, Both

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

  John Major

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Off, Union, Nations

• everything exactly as I did,’ then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

  John Major

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moving, Mean, Everything

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

  John Major

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Best, Press

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Character, Over, Others

• I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they’re great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.

  John Major

  Topics in Job, Work

  Tags in Great

• I don’t think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.

  John Major

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stand, Nations, Aside

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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