John Major Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.”

“I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.”

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

“I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.”

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