John Major Quotes

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.

John Major

• Parents
• Proud

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

• Character
• Reading

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.

John Major

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.

John Major

• Life
• Country
• Quality

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

John Major

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.

John Major

• Done
• History
• Wall

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

John Major

• Society

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

John Major

• Deep
• Walking

Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.

John Major

• Value
• Greek

The right hon. and learned Member is the man who likes to say yes in Europe — Monsieur Oui, the poodle of Brussels.

John Major

It is the one event in my life of which I am most ashamed and I have long feared would be made public.

John Major

• Life
• Long

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

John Major

• Community

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

John Major

• People
• War

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

John Major

• People
• Truth

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.

John Major

• Opinion

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

John Major

• Good

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

John Major

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

John Major

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

John Major