#hi

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

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed

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

#first #first time #had #hit #home

Well, I think there's a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence. ↗

— John Major

#distinction #i #i think #intelligence #presentation

I've had disappointments and heartbreaks and setbacks and roles I didn't get, but something always came along that either made me better or was an even better role. ↗

— Lee Majors

#always #better #came #disappointments #either

I did a few more plays, and then I went to L.A., because I knew I could get a coaching job there. ↗

— Lee Majors

#coaching #could #did #few #get

I got kind of burned out, so I moved to Florida. I was down there for 10 or 12 years, raising children. ↗

— Lee Majors

#children #down #florida #got #i

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#common enemy #deal #enemy #important #interests

I thought I'd gone to heaven, because I grew up watching Roy and Gene Autry. ↗

— Lee Majors

#because #gene #gene autry #gone #grew