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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
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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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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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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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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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Life is full of surprises.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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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 don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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Disunity costs votes.
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I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
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I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
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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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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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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
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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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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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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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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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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
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