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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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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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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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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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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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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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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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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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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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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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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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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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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 don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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