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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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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.
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
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.
John Major
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
John Major
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
John Major
In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
John Major
I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
John Major
I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
John Major
Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.
John Major
Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people.
John Major
If is a very big preposition.
John Major
I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
John Major
When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
John Major
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
John Major
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.
John Major
You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
John Major
If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
John Major
When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
John Major
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'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
