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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.

John Major

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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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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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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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My mother was the center of the family.
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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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Disunity costs votes.
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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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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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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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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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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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