John Major Quotes

•  the role of the prime minister to court the press.

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

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• ‘Government gets things right’ does not encourage sales. ‘Government makes another blunder’ does encourage sales, so there’s a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.

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• Disunity costs votes.

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• Certainly we’ve seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

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• Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

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• It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics , to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family – and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

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

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• The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

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• Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

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• Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

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• Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

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• Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

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• I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

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

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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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