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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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Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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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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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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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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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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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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Political suicide can end a career.
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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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In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.
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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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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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My mother was the center of the family.
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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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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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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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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
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Life is full of surprises.
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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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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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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