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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.
John Major
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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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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 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 your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
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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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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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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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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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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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