123 Quotes by John Major

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

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.

You’re lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.