John Major Quotes
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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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It is the one event in my life of which I am most ashamed and I have long feared would be made public.
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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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Something I was not aware had happened suddenly turned out not to have happened.
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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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We will do precisely what the British nation has done all through its history when it had its back to the wall — turn round and fight for the things it believes in, and that is what I shall do.
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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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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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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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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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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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When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.
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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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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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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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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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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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If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.
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My mother was the center of the family.
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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.