John Major quotes Born: 03/29/1943 Country: united_kingdom

• 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. (John Major)
• The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision. (John Major) [mistake/decision]
• 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. (John Major) [politics/intellect/patience/politics]
• 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)
• 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)
• 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. (John Major)
• 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. (John Major)
• Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors. (John Major)
• Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less. (John Major)

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