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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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  Guerra, Hombres, Años

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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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  Government, Doe, Blunders

  "'I shouldn't have read the papers so much when I was PM'". Interview with Julia Langdon, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2007.

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• There are more myths about Black Wednesday than the Greeks ever created.

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  Greek, Black, Myth

  "John Major tells Leveson inquiry: I was too sensitive about press coverage" by Lisa O'Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.

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  Thinking, Roles, Prime

  "John Major tells Leveson inquiry: I was too sensitive about press coverage" by Lisa O'Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2012.

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• I think we can get respect for Parliament back providing governments and oppositions are frank.

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  Thinking, Government, Parliament

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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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  Conflict, Scottish, Parliament

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• Liberty is equally desirable to the good and to the bad, to the brave and to the dastardly.

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  Brave, Liberty, Desirable

  John Major (1821). “An Introduction to Latin Syntax ...: To which is Subjoined An Epitome of Ancient History ... to which is Added a Proper Collection of Historical and Chronological Questions”, p.50

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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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  British, Very Good, Presses

  "'I shouldn't have read the papers so much when I was PM'". Interview with Julia Langdon, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2007.

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• I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.

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  Writing, Long, Memoir

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• [on Queen Mother] Our country is the richer for her life and the poorer at her death.

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  Country, Our Country

  "Tributes pour in for Queen Mum", www.cnn.com. April 22, 2002.

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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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  Banking Crisis, Europe, Greek

  "The Andrew Marr Show", news.bbc.co.uk. October 9, 2011.

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• 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.

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  Parent, Proud, Way

  "John Major: The old man and me" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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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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  Mother, Baby, Father

  "John Major: The old man and me" by Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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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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  War, Men, Regimes

  "John Major dismisses Blair's Iraq war reasoning" by David Batty, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2010.

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• You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.

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  Dubious, Weak, Foreign Exchange

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• La vida está llena de sorpresas.

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  Inspiración, Vida, Inspiración

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• Well British troops are superb in the field in terms of conflict.

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  Troops, Fields, Conflict

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• In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

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  Country, Years, Next

  "Today" Newspaper, November 24, 1990.

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• Tentacles of terrorism spread everywhere

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  Terrorism, Tentacles, Spread

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• I will turn directly to the Asylum Bill later.

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  Asylums, Bills, Turns

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• The world has gone through tremendous change recently; both nationally andinternationally.

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  Gone, World

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• Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors.

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  Forever, Actors, Comic

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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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  Middle East, Bottles, Genies

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• I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war.

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  Guerra, Pensamiento, Gente

  "Former PM John Major: 'British don't turn tail' from terror". Interview with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

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• When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.

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  Party, Fundraising, Office

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