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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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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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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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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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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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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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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.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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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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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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