Top 81 Quotes & Sayings by John Major - Page 2

Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere

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

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

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

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

Some people eat eggs, I wear them.

They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.

I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.

I can't legislate to change human nature.

Political suicide can end a career.

You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.

When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.

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

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

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.

If is a very big preposition.

Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

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

[on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

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.