Zitat des Tages von John Major:
I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.
I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.
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.
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.
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.
Disunity costs votes.
The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
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.
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future.
I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
