British - Politician | March 29, 1943 -
When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances.
John Major
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I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.
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Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.
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I mean if you have ever found a politician who says, 'No, no, I would do everything exactly as I did,' then you can tell when he is lying because his lips are moving.
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.
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I have been reading the press more regularly than others over 50 years and it seems to me that there are things that have changed in the press that have changed its character.
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'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism.
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I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good.
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Disunity costs votes.
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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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Well what would happen is that if Greece defaulted and couldn't pay its debts, all the Greek bonds that are held in other banking systems across Western Europe would suddenly have no value. You could as a knock-on effect create a banking crisis in Western Europe.
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