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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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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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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.
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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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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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My mother was the center of the family.
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