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A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I w... (more John Major quotes)
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