Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
John Major
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Autobiographer
Bank Manager
Banker
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Politician
London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
Tell
Truth
Many
People
Looked
Eye
More quotes by John Major
When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
John Major
My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
John Major
When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
John Major
In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.
John Major
Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.
John Major
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
The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
John Major
You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.
John Major
Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
John Major
When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
John Major
You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
John Major
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
John Major
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
What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
John Major
A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.
John Major
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
John Major
Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.
John Major
I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
John Major
Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
John Major
Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
John Major