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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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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.
John Major
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If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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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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I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher. I have my own priorities and my own programmes.
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I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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Disunity costs votes.
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein.
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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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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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Life is full of surprises.
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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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I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
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I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community.
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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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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
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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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