John Major Quotes
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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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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Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
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Something I was not aware had happened suddenly turned out not to have happened.
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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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 don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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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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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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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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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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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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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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If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.
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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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We Conservatives have always passed our values from generation to generation. I believe that personal prosperity should follow the same course. I want to see wealth cascading down the generations. We do not see each generation starting out anew, with the past cut off and the future ignored.
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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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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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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
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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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When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.
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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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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.