John Major Quotes
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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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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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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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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
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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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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
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Fifty years on from now, Britain will still be the country of long shadows on county 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.
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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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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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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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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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.
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When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.
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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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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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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.
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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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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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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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I want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country that is able and willing to build a better quality of life for all its citizens.
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.