John major

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

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

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

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men...

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

I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.

My mother was the center of the family.

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

My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.

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