British - Politician | March 29, 1943 -
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.
John Major
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My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s.
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I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.
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I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.
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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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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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What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and the Westminster parliament? Who is supreme?
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Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.
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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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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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My mother was the center of the family.
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Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence.
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