John Major Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Should

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

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  Mean, Pits, May

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• If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.

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  Jobs, Opportunity, Needs

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• You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.

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  Queens, Doe, Forget

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• Political suicide can end a career.

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  Suicide, Careers, Political

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

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  Thinking, Government, Parliament

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

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  Greek, Black, Myth

  "John Major tells Leveson inquiry: I was too sensitive about press coverage" by Lisa O'Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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

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  Writing, Long, Memoir

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• Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

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  Forever, Actors, Comic

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• Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

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  Troops, Fields, Conflict

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• In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

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  Country, Years, Next

  "Today" Newspaper, November 24, 1990.

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

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  War, Men, Regimes

  "John Major dismisses Blair's Iraq war reasoning" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2010.

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• When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.

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  Party, Fundraising, Office

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• Life is full of surprises.

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  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

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

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  Economic, Born, Circumstances

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• 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.

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  Banking Crisis, Europe, Greek

  "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. October 9, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Parent, Proud, Way

  "John Major: The old man and me" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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

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  Gone, World

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• What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

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  Conflict, Scottish, Parliament

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• Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.

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  Middle East, Bottles, Genies

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• I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

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  Thinking, Roles, Prime

  "John Major tells Leveson inquiry: I was too sensitive about press coverage" by Lisa O'Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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

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  British, Very Good, Presses

  "'I shouldn't have read the papers so much when I was PM'". Interview with Julia Langdon, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2007.

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

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  Dubious, Weak, Foreign Exchange

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• Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere

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  Terrorism, Tentacles, Spread

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

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  War, Thinking, People

  "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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