John Major Quotes

In Washington telling the truth is a gaff.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

A liar is always lavish of oaths.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Twenty five years in Washington has taught me never to tell a lie to a reporter.

By and large, our leaders don’t lie to us.

I am not a politician. A politician is someone who does things to get elected. He's a guy who says things to please the public, that he thinks the public wants to hear, and his story changes with every passing day. I want to be elected, but I am not going to say a damn thing for your benefit, or that person's benefit out there on the street, or anybody's

Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other married couples they sometimes live apart.

Trust is leveling with people before the election about what you're going to do after the election.

I'm the worst liar - I can't lie for my life. And I don't lie at all, because I'm the worst liar - but as a kid, I thought I was a great liar, so I would lie all the time, but everybody knew I was lying.

All I can say is anybody who's spent most of his life living a lie is not somebody I admire.

I don't lie," I lied.

You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear.

If I should go out of church whenever I hear a false statement I could never stay there five minutes. But why come out? The streetis as false as the church, and when I get to my house, or to my manners, or to my speech, I have not got away from the lie.

I don't mind scrutiny. What I don't like is lies.

Trump has not masked who he is. Trump has not behaved like the Democrats do. He does not go out and camouflage. He doesn't present a side of him that isn't real. He doesn't lie to people about what he believes. Although he has broken a serious promise. And he's got some immigration people that voted for him that are a little angry about that. That must be mentioned. But other than that, Trump voters know Trump is who he is. He doesn't act, he doesn't put on a front, he doesn't make up things - as opposed to the Democrats who can't be honest about who they are.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

A lie should be tried in a place where it will attract the attention of the world.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.

Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good lies make a positive.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.