Michael Heseltine Quotes

#1. The market has no morality

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#2. The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable

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#3. You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.

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#4. I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

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#5. Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

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#6. If the basis of trust between the Prime Minister and her Defence Secretary no longer exists, there is no place for me with honour in such a Cabinet.

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#7. In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.

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#8. The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.

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#9. Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

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#10. I am humble enough to recognize that I have made mistakes, but politically astute enough to know that I have forgotten what they are.

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#11. The British public sees with blinding clarity.

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#12. You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch.

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#13. There are those who never stretch out the hand for fear it will be bitten. But those who never stretch out the hand will never feel it clasped in friendship.

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#14. I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

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#15. One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?

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#16. Yes, I do talk to my trees. I did say to one 'You'd better smarten yourself up or you'll be gone' and the next year, well, you've never seen such a mass of flowers.

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#17. It is the only time that I can ever remember the Prime Minister reading out the conclusions of a meeting that did not take place. They were already written before it started.

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#18. They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.

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#19. I keep telling my Tory colleagues: don't have any policies. A manifesto that has policies alienates people. In 1979 the manifesto said nothing which was brilliant.

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