#si

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

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

#authentic #back #conservative #conventional #course

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept. ↗

— Laurette Taylor

#concept #emotional #mental #physical #picture

Whatever efforts for peace President Gorbachev had in mind, they were pretty substantially undercut very swiftly by Saddam Hussein. ↗

— John Major

#gorbachev #had #hussein #mind #peace

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

— John Major

#fundraising #i #office #party

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

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#ant #cope #crushes #endowed #greater

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#ground #now #silence #speak #surrender

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#am #because #career #i #i am