John Major Quotes

I would rather go while I am being urged to stay, than to stay beyond the time when I should go.

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

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

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

Political suicide can end a career.

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

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

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.

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.

You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

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

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere

UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.

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

My mother was the center of the family.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

The world has gone through tremendous change recently; both nationally andinternationally.

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

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.

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.