Quotes about John Major

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It may be inverted snobbishness but I don't want old style, Old Etonian Tories of the old school to succeed me and go back to the old complacent, consensus ways. John Major is someone who has fought his way up from the bottom and is far more in tune with the skilled and ambitious and worthwhile working classes than Douglas Hurd is.

Margaret Thatcher

John Major's self-control in cabinet was rigid. The most angry thing he would ever do was to throw down his pencil.

Gillian Shephard

I count my blessings for the fact I don't have to go into that pit that John Major stands in, nose-to-nose with the opposition, all yelling at each other.

George H. W. Bush

Seeing John Major govern the country is like watching Edward Scissorhands try to make balloon animals.

The Carlyle Group is the most politically connected investment firm in the world. The company has mastered the art of influence peddling on a global scale, hiring executives and consultants ranging from Republican power broker James Baker and former president George Herbert Walker Bush to foreign leaders like former British prime minister John Major and former Philippine president Fidel Ramos.

William Hartung