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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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England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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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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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.
John Major
They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
John Major
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
John Major
If is a very big preposition.
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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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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 am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
John Major
Life is full of surprises.
John Major
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.
John Major
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
John Major
Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
John Major
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.
John Major
I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
John Major
I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
John Major
Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
John Major
Political suicide can end a career.
John Major
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.
John Major
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.
John Major
The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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