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Political suicide can end a career.

John Major

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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Autobiographer
Bank Manager
Banker
Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Politician
London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
Careers
Political
Ends
Suicide
Career

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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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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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UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.
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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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What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
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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 want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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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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If is a very big preposition.
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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 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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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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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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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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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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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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