John Major

“If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.”

“Recovery begins from the darkest moment.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.”

“I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.”

“Disunity costs votes.”

“Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.”

“I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.”

“I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.”

“I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.”

“Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.”

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