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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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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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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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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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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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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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Life is full of surprises.
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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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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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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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 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 don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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My mother was the center of the family.
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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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Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it.
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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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