John Major quote: "The events of 25 years ago constituted a terrible tragedy, ... And I believe everyone is determined that the lessons of that day are never forgotten."

There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
JOHN MAJOR

I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.
JOHN MAJOR

I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.
JOHN MAJOR

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blund...
JOHN MAJOR

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long ...
JOHN MAJOR

The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.
JOHN MAJOR

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of v...
JOHN MAJOR

A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it kee...
JOHN MAJOR

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans go...
JOHN MAJOR

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were...
JOHN MAJOR

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
JOHN MAJOR

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
JOHN MAJOR

It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for ...
JOHN MAJOR

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate...
JOHN MAJOR

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. ...
JOHN MAJOR

You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious...
JOHN MAJOR

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

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.
JOHN MAJOR

I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
JOHN MAJOR

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole ...
JOHN MAJOR

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut ...
JOHN MAJOR

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic ge...
JOHN MAJOR

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

When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.
JOHN MAJOR

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in betw...
JOHN MAJOR

A moratorium around election time to end some of these shenanigans would be appropriate.
JOHN MAJOR

an answer ready to go.
JOHN MAJOR

The new rules are not necessarily unfair,
JOHN MAJOR

This is David expressing a personal view that many people will agree with but it isn't party policy
JOHN MAJOR

Being in the Northeast, you can't discount the power of Mother Nature and the effect that winters ha...
JOHN MAJOR

It's now up to all of us to turn cease-fire into peace, to turn peace into a lasting settlement and ...
JOHN MAJOR

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

At the time, yes.
JOHN MAJOR

Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.
JOHN MAJOR

a man of strong convictions even though they were sometimes unpopular.
JOHN MAJOR

This is exactly the kind of event that we've sort of been talking about and anticipating over the pa...
JOHN MAJOR

The British government fully supports the unequivocal message to Saddam Hussein that repression of i...
JOHN MAJOR

Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I ...
JOHN MAJOR

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in...
JOHN MAJOR

Both the United Kingdom and South Africa are keen to develop the relationship that exists and make i...
JOHN MAJOR

I didn't come from two rooms in Brixton to 10 Downing Street not to go out and fight with every fibe...
JOHN MAJOR

What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and th...
JOHN MAJOR

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too m...
JOHN MAJOR

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

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own count...
JOHN MAJOR

The moral turpitude of the boys of today appears to center in their failure to concentrate on any pa...
MAJOR TAYLOR

Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is...
MAJOR TAYLOR

I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete...
MAJOR TAYLOR

I might go on discussing this subject at great length, but after all is said, done, and written, my ...
MAJOR TAYLOR

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their col...
MAJOR TAYLOR

I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngst...
MAJOR TAYLOR

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serio...
MAJOR TAYLOR

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phe...
MAJOR TAYLOR

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the suc...
MAJOR TAYLOR

In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days...
MAJOR TAYLOR

An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean l...
MAJOR TAYLOR

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing hi...
MAJOR TAYLOR

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.
MAJOR TAYLOR

As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the ...
MAJOR TAYLOR

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, f...
MAJOR TAYLOR

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Tim...
MAJOR TAYLOR

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
MAJOR TAYLOR

These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere ...
MAJOR TAYLOR

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy l...
MAJOR OWENS

You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
MAJOR OWENS

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education faciliti...
MAJOR OWENS

My ankle's good; it's ready for tomorrow.
AUDRA MAJOR

Adrenaline tends to kill the pain.
AUDRA MAJOR

It's always a battle between us and Grants. Last year we let it get away from us. We knew we couldn'...
AUDRA MAJOR

It's difficult to focus in a game like this.
AUDRA MAJOR

That wasn't really like them to do that. They didn't seem to know which option to take.
AUDRA MAJOR

I don't know about my defense, but as a team we defended really well.
AUDRA MAJOR

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean livin...
MAJOR TAYLOR

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart cre...
MAJOR OWENS

There was gridlock in the South Florida ports. You can't keep building ships and still have enough s...
BRIAN MAJOR

Most people go to the Caribbean, but Alaska is also a prime summer market. Europe also attracts some...
BRIAN MAJOR

That's a big purchase for us. That's great.
BRIAN MAJOR

We could walk out of Town Meeting with an unbalanced budget, which would require additional actions ...
BRIAN MAJOR

We see this as a strong trend.
BRIAN MAJOR

We're trying to get the word out. Together with the Caribbean Tourism Organization, we're notifying ...
BRIAN MAJOR

Around 2000 or so, we began to see more of this type of cruise, focused around bands and music that,...
BRIAN MAJOR

High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further econom...
MAJOR OWENS

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can...
MAJOR OWENS

It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted...
MAJOR OWENS

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops ...
MAJOR OWENS

We need the white business community at the table.
BARBARA MAJOR

If you're talking about building a city, you've got to create a place for everybody. This city doesn...
BARBARA MAJOR

I think some people don't understand that an equal number of black and white isn't the same as equit...
BARBARA MAJOR

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that ...
MAJOR OWENS

everything -- all sources, all methods, all techniques, all targets.
DAVID MAJOR

Her mission in the diplomatic staff of the South African government was to meet people from the U.S....
DAVID MAJOR

There's time where you have to have fun, ... The grind of the camp becomes too much for the psyche o...
MAJOR APPLEWHITE

When I was a true freshman (at Texas), I had Ricky Williams and he took a hell of a lot of pressure ...
MAJOR APPLEWHITE

It makes all the difference in the world,
MAJOR APPLEWHITE

The toughest thing about it was I couldn't come to grips with it. I couldn't reason it out in my min...
MAJOR APPLEWHITE

When you're that young, you can't come to grips emotionally so you isolate yourself from your teamma...
MAJOR APPLEWHITE

You don't have to accept it. If you accept it, you're giving up. I didn't understand it when it happ...
MAJOR APPLEWHITE

People don't understand I felt I had accomplished all I wanted as a player in football.
MAJOR APPLEWHITE

That goes back to not accepting it. What if I said, 'Yeah, you're right, Chris is better, I'm just g...
MAJOR APPLEWHITE

We hope that the elected officials will respond positively to a ground swell of letters, phone calls...
MAJOR OWENS

His strength for your weakness! His wisdom for your folly! His drive for your drift! His grace for y...
MAJOR THOMAS

The main pulse of this eruption lasted 10 minutes. In 1980, it lasted nine hours. Short duration, no...
JON MAJOR

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.
MAJOR OWENS

But we do not anticipate any major changes.
BRUCE MAJOR

The expansion will enable us to nearly double our production and really establish us as a key player...
BRUCE MAJOR

People didn't always see a person with a disability who had to use a ramp or elevator as people ...
MAJOR OWENS

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal ...
MAJOR OWENS

Folks seem to confuse what science is all about; it's a methodology of discovery to explain how thin...
DAVID MAJOR

I can think of no place in Washington in which more damage had taken place than there.
DAVID MAJOR

Any place you look in this city you will see the ghost of intelligence collection.
DAVID MAJOR

Maybe he was intrigued with the game and not the gain.
DAVID MAJOR

Even under close evaluation, PML remains a rare disease. But as we alter the immune system, we need ...
EUGENE MAJOR

Statistically then, the risk is approximately 1 in 1,000, which is substantially higher than in the ...
EUGENE MAJOR

We have found no evidence of additional cases of PML.
EUGENE MAJOR

We concluded that at this particular time there is no evidence that there are more PML cases.
EUGENE MAJOR

We had to assess who else might be at risk.
EUGENE MAJOR

This study was designed to address a critical, immediate need for patient safety in the people who p...
EUGENE MAJOR

At Monessen we had them by one in the fourth quarter and we lost and, at their place, we had them by...
MAJOR CORLEY

Against the good teams, we come out slow most of the time and they kept us from running. We took lik...
MAJOR CORLEY

We didn't get too many calls in the fourth quarter. They were pushing us and I'm not going to say th...
MAJOR CORLEY

We were a little nervous.
MAJOR CORLEY

We're going to run and push the ball. My only concern is how well we will rebound. We'll have to see...
MAJOR CORLEY

We're going to go with a four-guard offense and boy are they fast.
MAJOR CORLEY

The big girl (Pearson) was non-existent in the first half. I told them we're going to have to live o...
MAJOR CORLEY

I was hoping to stall the ball because I thought they would make another run. We never cracked under...
MAJOR CORLEY

Everybody counted us out of even getting here. But the girls fought, they played hard, and now, we h...
MAJOR CORLEY

I apologize to the Gainesville community, the University of Florida, everyone who cares deeply about...
MAJOR PARKER

When he says he loves you, it's genuine. He's a man of character. He's genuine. He's my hero.
MAJOR PARKER

We are grateful to Tony Riley for his dedication and hard work and look forward to his continuing co...
JO MAJOR

As we exit our corporate restructuring, we are pleased to introduce a series of innovative new produ...
JO MAJOR

Gross margins improved for the fourth consecutive quarter and are up 13 percentage points from the s...
JO MAJOR

Yes it was (tough). Walking away and knowing I'll probably not get that position again. I always sai...
MIKE MAJOR

We did what we wanted to do, and it's unfortunate their best player was out of the lineup. But I tho...
MATT MAJOR

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do, no explan...
MAJOR KIRA NERYS

With willing hearts and skillful hands, the difficult we do at once; the impossible takes a bit long...
MAJOR ED DAMES

There is an ongoing operation in the area to track down the attackers.
MAJOR GAMAL HAYUDINI

The two groups had been involved in previous fighting because of a long time feud. Troops have stric...
MAJOR GAMAL HAYUDINI

On a bell curve, we're all born with certain skills. Some people are beter track runners than others...
MAJOR ED DAMES

They destroyed something they voted to pay for.
MAJOR JIM BRANCH

At the present time we are leaning toward no association. But I would caution that that could change...
MAJOR JIM BRANCH

We fully realize the public is looking at this case. I can assure you we are working tirelessly. We ...
MAJOR JIM BRANCH

The people don't want this in their neighborhoods. They want their kids to be able to go out and pla...
MAJOR LEON WILMOT

Chances are that if they're still living together, you can put it towards a domestic type situation.
MAJOR LEON WILMOT

We've gotten information in the last several hours that a passing motorist saw our vehicle, our Stat...
MAJOR STEVEN WHITE

We're pretty confident at this point that our trooper was simply executing a vehicle and traffic sto...
MAJOR STEVEN WHITE

She had a voice so husky it could have pulled a dogsled, and the gun she was holding gave me a bad c...
PATRICK MAJOR DALLAS OR

Wake up America.
MAJOR AUGUSTUS P. GARDNER

What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha?
IAN HAY (PSEUDONYM OF MAJOR JOHN HAY BEITH)

A knowledge of Persian will aid a traveler in these countries [Turkmenistan]; but the Toorkey [Turki...
A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY

My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER

No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY

This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER

No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY

Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS

The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS

Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON

I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON

Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON

In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
JOHN CLAYTON

Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ...
JOHN CLAYTON

What is the origin of God?
JOHN CLAYTON

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and e...
JOHN CLAYTON

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
JOHN CLAYTON

Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are t...
JOHN CLAYTON

There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON

The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
JOHN CLAYTON

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHS

You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw...
JOHN MADDEN

I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN

The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND

I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
JOHN FAIRCHILD

Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my...
JOHN PRESCOTT

My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER

As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE

When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE

I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE

Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE

The events of 25 years ago constituted a terrible tragedy, ... And I believe everyone is determined that the lessons of that day are never forgotten.

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The events of 25 years ago constituted a terrible tragedy, ... And I believe everyone is determined that the lessons of that day are never forgotten.

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