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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 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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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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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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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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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 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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Life is full of surprises.
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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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My mother was the center of the family.
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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 am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
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Political suicide can end a career.
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The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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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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