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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
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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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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second. In more recent years the Russians were there with 120,000 men for ten years.
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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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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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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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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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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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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 want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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Disunity costs votes.
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I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.
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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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The world has gone through tremendous change recently both nationally andinternationally.
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.
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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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