John Major
John Major
Sir John Major, KG, CH, PCis a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997. He served consecutively as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Thatcher Government from 1989 to 1990, and was the Member of Parliament for Huntingdon from 1979 to 2001...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 March 1943
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It remains impossible to reconcile Sinn Fein's rhetoric for peace with the IRA's preparations for murder,
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It's now up to all of us to turn cease-fire into peace, to turn peace into a lasting settlement and the countries of former Yugoslavia into a stable and prosperous part of the European family,
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a man of strong convictions even though they were sometimes unpopular.
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This is exactly the kind of event that we've sort of been talking about and anticipating over the past several days. This is a fairly small eruption.
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The United Kingdom is South Africa's largest foreign investor and I have every reason to image that that is going to remain the case,
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Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.
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When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.
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The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.
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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 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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I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.
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Give the Germans five deutschmarks and they will save it. But give the British £5 and they will borrow £25 and spend it.
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Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
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There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.