"I think the majority of the British people are still sanguine about the need for war." ― John Major Topic(s): War More From John Major "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." "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." "Well, I think there’s a distinction between sexing-up the intelligence and sexing-up the presentation of the intelligence." More In War "If we don’t end war, war will end us."― H. G. Wells "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election."― Otto von Bismarck "What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre."― Tahar Ben Jelloun