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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.
John Major
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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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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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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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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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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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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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Disunity costs votes.
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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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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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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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Life is full of surprises.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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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 don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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If is a very big preposition.
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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