John Major Quotes

Conservatives must move from stop to go, from making points to making change.

The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

My company and people think I'm wacky when I have an idea... I know if I have an idea, no one will want to go through it. But if I persist, people will go through it.

I've got a feeling that with the best coppers - and in fact the best people in any field of work - what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

I remember the day after the general election when Harold Wilson had lost, I remember quite clearly cycling from my house in Hutton along Long Ridings and feeling what a relief to live in a country with a Tory government again.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald Reagan?

I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

I love the Restoration. It's a bit like coming out of the John Major era into the optimism of Tony Blair.

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful.

People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.

I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.

My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.

In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

I do not want a one-term Labor Government that dazzles for a moment and ends in disillusion. I want a Labor Government that governs for a generation and changes Britain for good.

The party of Lincoln has not always carried the mantle of Lincoln.

No government of which I am a member will ever be a government of reaction.

Politicians have become extraordinarily conservative, but our times require imagination and bold action.

I saw Donald Trump give a spirited voice to those of us who don't like the status quo, and I see emerging in front of us the potential for what a unified Republican government can get you, which can be the solutions.

If you're inside the box and a cross is coming, sometimes you need, as we say in Spanish, to smell the intuition, to smell where the cross is going.

I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities.