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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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Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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If is a very big preposition.
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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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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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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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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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 think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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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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They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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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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Disunity costs votes.
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The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
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