John Major Quotes

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• When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

  John Major

  Funny, Motivational, Wall

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• Fifty years 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 still read even in school.

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  Country, Dog, Morning

  John Major's speech to the Conservative Group for Europe, www.johnmajor.co.uk. April 22, 1993.

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• Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

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  Life, Recovery, Moments

  "UK economy has passed darkest moment, says John Major" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

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

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  Needs, Littles

  Interview, Mail on Sunday (London), 21 Feb. 1993

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• If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.

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  Asking, Answers, Politician

  "Why the Lords doesn't need more politicians" by Vernon Bogdanor, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 11, 2007.

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

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  Mistake, Failure, Discovery

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• Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people.

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  Hands, British, Behalf

  "At war with his party". The Guardian, April 17, 1997.

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• Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.

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  Knowing, Long, Goes On

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

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  Europe, Effectiveness, Concern

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• A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.

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  Country, Dog, Morning

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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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  Jobs, Dollars, Pounds

  "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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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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  Country, Quality, Citizens

  "Twentieth-century British political facts, 1900-2000". Book by David Butler, Gareth Butler, 2000.

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• The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

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  Country, Army, Years

  "Former PM John Major: 'British don't turn tail' from terror". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

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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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  Thinking, Unions, Dropping

  "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. October 09, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Responsibility, Self, Law

  "Major gives seal of approval to Tories' right-wing agenda". The Sunday Times, October 9, 1993.

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

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  Regret, Entering, Rate

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• Disunity costs votes.

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  Cost, Vote, Disunity

  "UK economy has passed darkest moment, says John Major" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2012.

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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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  Running, Block, Community

  "Major goes back to the old values" by Patrick Wintour and Stephen Bates, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 1993.

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• I can't legislate to change human nature.

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  Human Nature, Humans, I Can

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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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  Jobs, People, House

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

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  Thinking, Cleansing, Genocide

  "Major, the chicken turned hawk". www.theguardian.com. April 10, 1999.

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• Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.

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  Business, Giving, Debt

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• I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

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  Running, Son, Priorities

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• I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

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  Regret, Educational, Sick

  John Major (2013). “John Major: The Autobiography”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

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  Regret, Voice, Feet

  John Major (2013). “John Major: The Autobiography”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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