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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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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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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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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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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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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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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'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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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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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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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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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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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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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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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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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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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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