John Major Quotes

It's a puzzle, and it's keeping us on our toes. It's showing signs of an eruption, but not to the size and magnitude of 1980. - John Major

It remains impossible to reconcile Sinn Fein's rhetoric for peace with the IRA's preparations for murder. - John Major

It just can't be won by military might alone... If you're going to destroy these terrorist groups, you need to destroy their finances, you need to destroy their safe havens, you need to destroy their causes, and you can't just do that with military means. - John Major

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. - John Major

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

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

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

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

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. - John Major

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. - John Major

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