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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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If is a very big preposition.
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They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
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Disunity costs votes.
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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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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'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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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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Political suicide can end a career.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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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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The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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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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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
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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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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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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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