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Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way. ↗

— Rick Majerus

#bad #bad luck #had #hardly #haven

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

#back #basics #consideration #core #core values

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

#first #game #hare #intellect #long

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle. ↗

— John Major

#bottle #certainly #changes #democratic #east

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. ↗

— John Major

#admiration #for the people #great #house #huge

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge. ↗

— John Major

#edge #european #european union #extremely #i

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

— John Major

#frank #get #governments #i #i think

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't. ↗

— John Major

#before #conservative #could #different #i

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

#ahead #always #areas #arts #back

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. ↗

— John Major

#afghan #ago #back #britain #come