John Major Quotes

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.

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.

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

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 am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.

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