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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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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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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.
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The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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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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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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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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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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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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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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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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Disunity costs votes.
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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'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.
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When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
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I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
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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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UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.
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