John Major Quotes

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.

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

I can't legislate to change human nature.

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

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

Some people eat eggs, I wear them.

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

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

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

I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.

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

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

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

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

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

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

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