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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.

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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London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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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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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people.
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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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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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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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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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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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My mother was the center of the family.
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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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I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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Disunity costs votes.
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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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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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