I took office on certain conditions, not one of which has he observed.

He is one of those men with whom you cannot deal confidently." This was the bitterest thing I ever heard him say of his former enemy.
As regards the old days in the House of Commons, he told me that there was room for only one leader in Wales, and that, while Mr.Lloyd George could speak, he couldn't, and so Mr.Lloyd George, who was consumed by personal ambition, had won the battle.

In saying this he smiled like a boy, and only grew serious when he added of those wasted years, "The bother is I had a lot of useful things I wanted to do for the country." He was convinced that he could have paid off the whole of the National Debt during those years.
A good judge of statesmen said of Lord Rhondda that he would have made the greatest Chancellor of the Exchequer these islands had ever possessed.

I do not think there can be any doubt of this, for his genius lay in figures and he had extraordinary swiftness in seeing his way through expensive chaos to economical order.

His mind was constructive, if not positively creative.