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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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What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
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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'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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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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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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Political suicide can end a career.
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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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I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.
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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.
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UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.
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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 want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country that is able and willing to build a better quality of life for all its citizens.
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The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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