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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Autobiographer
Bank Manager
Banker
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Politician
London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
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My mother was the center of the family.
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I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
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Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.
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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.
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Political suicide can end a career.
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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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Disunity costs votes.
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A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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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.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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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.
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If is a very big preposition.
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You cannot think of Margaret without Denis. There comes a time when every Prime Minister needs someone to give him or her the unvarnished truth, and, in Denis, Margaret had just that.
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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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