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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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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.
John Major
You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.
John Major
I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
John Major
Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.
John Major
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.
John Major
There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
John Major
My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
John Major
Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
John Major
When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.
John Major
Disunity costs votes.
John Major
I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
John Major
I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
John Major
Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
John Major
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.
John Major
Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
John Major
When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
John Major
Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
John Major
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.
John Major
Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.
John Major
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.
John Major
