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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
Banker
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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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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Political suicide can end a career.
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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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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.
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If is a very big preposition.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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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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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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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 have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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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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A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.
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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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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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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
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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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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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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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