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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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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Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.
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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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They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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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.
John Major
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.
John Major
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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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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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
John Major
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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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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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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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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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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Disunity costs votes.
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If is a very big preposition.
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Political suicide can end a career.
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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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