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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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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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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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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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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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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 think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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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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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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Disunity costs votes.
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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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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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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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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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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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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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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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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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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