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

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

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Scottish

Conflict

" 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 core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. "

" September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale. "

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

" I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough. "

John Major

Regret

Beginning

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government. "

" Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors. "

" The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision. "

" 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 don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. "

" I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character. "

John Major

Reading

Others

" If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future. "

" Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British nation. "

John Major

Disagree

Hands

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

" Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. "

" 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. "

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

John Major

Very

Best

" The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. "

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

" If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years. "

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

" 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. "

" I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank. "

" My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. "

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

John Major

Wednesday

Myths

" I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. "