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" You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed. "
John Major
You
Had
Being
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" You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen. "
John Major
You
Queen
Forget
" 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. "
John Major
You
Time
Look
" 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
Me
Disagree
Hands
" 'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism. "
John Major
Makes
Right
Sales
" Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence. "
John Major
Well
Intelligence
Presentation
" My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. "
John Major
Mother
Father
Late
" Life is full of surprises. "
John Major
Surprises
Full
Life
" I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. "
John Major
Ability
Mistake
See
" I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time. "
John Major
Memoirs
Long
Write
" A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it. "
John Major
Believe
Someone
Right
" I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. "
John Major
Need
War
Think
" Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict. "
John Major
Well
British
Conflict
" I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. "
John Major
Stand
Nations
Genocide
" If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future. "
John Major
Want
Opportunity
Need
" I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press. "
John Major
Minister
Press
Court
" 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
More
" 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. "
John Major
Turn
British
Inventions
" 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. "
John Major
People
Health
Sports
" Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete. "
John Major
Effectiveness
Well
Compete
" The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision. "
John Major
Politician
Never
Mistake
" There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. "
John Major
Wednesday
Myths
More
" Recovery begins from the darkest moment. "
John Major
Darkest
Moment
Recovery
" 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
Me
" When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers. "
John Major
Office
Party
Done
" I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't. "
John Major
Thought
Conservative
Different
" 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. "
John Major
Most
Ways
Than
" I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good. "
John Major
Like
Very
Best
" 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. "
John Major
Country
Army
Terrorism
" The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change. "
John Major
Man
Argument
Bad
" 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. "
John Major
September
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