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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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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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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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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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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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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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Whether you agree with me, disagree with me, like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating on behalf of the British people.
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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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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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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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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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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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Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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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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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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