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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
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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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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'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere
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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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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 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 think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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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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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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Life is full of surprises.
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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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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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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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Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.
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UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.
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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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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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Political suicide can end a career.
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