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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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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
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I want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country that is able and willing to build a better quality of life for all its citizens.
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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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 think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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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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Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.
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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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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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Life is full of surprises.
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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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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 our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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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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My mother was the center of the family.
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