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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.

John Major

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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Autobiographer
Bank Manager
Banker
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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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'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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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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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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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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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
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UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.
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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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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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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 think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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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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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.
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.
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In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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Disunity costs votes.
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