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If you asked her (Margaret Thatcher) about Sinai, she would probably think it was the plural for sinus.

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It's a fairly unique position; to have been in charge of prison funding and then to have been an inmate. I wish I'd been more generous.

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If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

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If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play, so be it.

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As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

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Jonathan Aitken

Jonathan Aitken

Born: August 30, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Jonathan William Patrick Aitken is a former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom for 24 years, and a former British government Cabinet minister.
Known for:
  1. Margaret Thatcher: Power and Personality (2013)
  2. Pride And Perjury (2000)
  3. John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace (2007)
  4. Nixon, a life (1993)
  5. Porridge And Passion (2005)

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