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UN goodwill may be a bottomless pit but it's by no means limitless.

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
Politician
London
England
Sir John Major
Rt. Hon. Sir John Major
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Bottomless
Pits
Goodwill
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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 want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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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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Disunity costs votes.
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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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Some people eat eggs, I wear them.
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My mother was the center of the family.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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When our backs are against the wall, we must turn around and march forward.
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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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If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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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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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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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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You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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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 the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument.
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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