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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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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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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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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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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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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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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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If is a very big preposition.
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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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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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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 Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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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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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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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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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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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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