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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
John Major
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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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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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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 think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
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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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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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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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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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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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UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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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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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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