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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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Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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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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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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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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I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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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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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 think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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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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Political suicide can end a career.
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