John Major

Notable Quotes



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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Life is full of surprises.

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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

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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 thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

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The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.

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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

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

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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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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

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