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

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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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Goodwill
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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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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 don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.
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I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
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I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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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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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 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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Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.
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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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