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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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Bank Manager
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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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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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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
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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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My mother was the center of the family.
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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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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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I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
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If is a very big preposition.
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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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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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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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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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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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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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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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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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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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The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.
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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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