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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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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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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 am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
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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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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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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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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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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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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 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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UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.
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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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