John Major Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Well, I think there’s a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.

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.

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

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

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn’t believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

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

I can’t legislate to change human nature.

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