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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
Recovery
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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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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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You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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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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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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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 don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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If is a very big preposition.
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My mother was the center of the family.
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Disunity costs votes.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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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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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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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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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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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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Life is full of surprises.
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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
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