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I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.

John Major

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John Major
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: March 29
Autobiographer
Bank Manager
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Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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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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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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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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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
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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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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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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 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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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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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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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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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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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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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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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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