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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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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Autobiographer
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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Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.
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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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The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.
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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 think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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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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My mother was the center of the family.
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
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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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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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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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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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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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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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UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.
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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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