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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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Bank Manager
Banker
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Politician
London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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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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Disunity costs votes.
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Political suicide can end a career.
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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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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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Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.
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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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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.
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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 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 don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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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 think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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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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My mother was the center of the family.
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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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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 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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