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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
John Major
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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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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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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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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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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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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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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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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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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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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
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Disunity costs votes.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
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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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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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My mother was the center of the family.
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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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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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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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