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" 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. "

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" 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. "

John Major

Family

Respect

Time

" I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time. "

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

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

" The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election. "

John Major

People

Government

" Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My mother was the center of the family. "

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

" Disunity costs votes. "

John Major

Votes

Costs

" When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers. "

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

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

John Major

People

Truth

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

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

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

" Life is full of surprises. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

John Major

Wednesday

Myths

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

" 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. "

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

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

John Major

Very

Best

" Recovery begins from the darkest moment. "