John Major
John Major
Sir John Major, KG, CH, PCis a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He served consecutively as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Thatcher Government from 1989 to 1990, and was the Member of Parliament for Huntingdon from 1979 to 2001...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 March 1943
government doe blunders
'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
cost vote disunity
Disunity costs votes.
suicide careers political
Political suicide can end a career.
business giving debt
Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.
effort mind president
Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
fields troops conflict
Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.
british very-good presses
I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.
bottles middle-east genies
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
bills asylums turns
I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.
patience running games
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.
gone world
The world has gone through tremendous change recently; both nationally andinternationally.
greek black myth
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
jobs opportunity needs
If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.
writing long memoir
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.