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" My mother was the center of the family. "
John Major
Center
Mother
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" I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. "
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Nations
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" I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press. "
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Court
" I want Britain to punch its weight in the European Community. "
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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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" When the euro was born, it was born in the wrong economic circumstances. "
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Wrong
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" I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war. "
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Need
War
Think
" When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers. "
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Office
Party
Done
" I like the best of the British press. The best of the British press is very good. "
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Like
Very
Best
" Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein. "
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Whatever
Pretty
" 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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Beginning
Me
" 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. "
John Major
Thought
Stupid
People
" 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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People
Job
House
" Disunity costs votes. "
John Major
Votes
Costs
" 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. "
John Major
Lips
Moving
Tell
" Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict. "
John Major
Well
British
Conflict
" 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. "
John Major
Politics
My Own
Regret
" It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state. "
John Major
Family
Respect
Time
" September the 11th was a huge shock in the United States. It was the first time you had been hit at home in your own territory by terrorist on this scale. "
John Major
September
Home
Time
" The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. "
John Major
Politics
Game
Long
" 'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism. "
John Major
Makes
Right
Sales
" Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle. "
John Major
Middle East
Middle
Changes
" I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge. "
John Major
Union
Edge
Nations
" 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. "
John Major
People
Health
Sports
" I think the biggest mistake I made was this wretched ability to see both sides of an argument. "
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Ability
Mistake
See
" Recovery begins from the darkest moment. "
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Darkest
Moment
Recovery
" I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't. "
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Thought
Conservative
Different
" There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created. "
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Wednesday
Myths
More
" If we want to deliver opportunity for all, we need an economy that delivers jobs for the future. "
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Want
Opportunity
Need
" My father was 64 when I was conceived, my mother 38, which was late for babies in the 1940s. "
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Mother
Father
Late