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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

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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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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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 want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
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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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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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They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
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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 have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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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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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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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
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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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Disunity costs votes.
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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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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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Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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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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