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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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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
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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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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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Disunity costs votes.
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.
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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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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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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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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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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 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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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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The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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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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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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