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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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Darkest
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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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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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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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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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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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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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 for ten years.
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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.
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The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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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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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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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.
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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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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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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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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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