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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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Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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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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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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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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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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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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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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Life is full of surprises.
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Disunity costs votes.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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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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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 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'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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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 am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
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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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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
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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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