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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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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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I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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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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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.
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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 nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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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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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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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
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My mother was the center of the family.
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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 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 think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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Disunity costs votes.
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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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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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