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 is the one event in my life of which I am most ashamed and I have long feared it would be made public.
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This looks very much at the moment as if this is the work of the IRA, showing their usual contempt for people's lives and property,
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I can't remember an occasion when there was so much excitement and anticipation about a game of cricket. It has been a truly phenomenal series.
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It just can't be won by military might alone, ... If you're going to destroy these terrorist groups, you need to destroy their finances, you need to destroy their safe havens, you need to destroy their causes, and you can't just do that with military means.
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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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a man of strong convictions even though they were sometimes unpopular.
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Being in the Northeast, you can't discount the power of Mother Nature and the effect that winters have on deer.
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The British government fully supports the unequivocal message to Saddam Hussein that repression of innocent civilians and reckless acts of brutality are unacceptable,
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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.
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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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This is David expressing a personal view that many people will agree with but it isn't party policy
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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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It remains impossible to reconcile Sinn Fein's rhetoric for peace with the IRA's preparations for murder,
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We want a truly open society, in which every man and woman will be able to go as far as their talent, ambition and effort take them