In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

- John Major

I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.

- John Major

My mother was the center of the family.

- John Major

When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.

- John Major

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.

- John Major

Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

- John Major

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

- John Major

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.

- John Major

September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale.

- John Major

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.

- John Major

I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

- John Major

You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.

- John Major

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?

- John Major

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

- John Major

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.

- John Major

I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

- John Major

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

- John Major

I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

- John Major

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.

- John Major

Disunity costs votes.

- John Major