Top 31 Quotes About Edward Heath: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Edward Heath

#1. When I look at him [Edward Heath] and he looks at me, I don't feel that it is a man looking at a woman. More like a woman being looked at by another woman.

Margaret Thatcher

#2. Edward Heath and Richard Nixon took personal awkwardness with each other to new and excruciating levels.

David Cameron

#3. Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

Edward Heath

#4. Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

Edward Heath

#5. We are the trade union for pensioners and children, the trade union for the disabled and the sick ... the trade union for the nation as a whole.

Edward Heath

#6. Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Edward Heath

#7. Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.

Edward Heath

#8. I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel

Edward Heath

#9. I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the victory of the Conservative Party at this general election.

Edward Heath

#10. In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.

Edward Heath

#11. There's a lot of people I've encouraged and helped to get into the House of Commons. Looking at them now, I'm not so sure it was a wise thing to do.

Edward Heath

#12. A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.

Edward Heath

#13. I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

Edward Heath

#14. I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?

Edward Heath

#15. I said it three times actually.

Edward Heath

#16. We have had eight years of consistent and persistent attacks on those four years in government - and on me, personally, but that does not matter - by people who were collectively responsible for those four years.

Edward Heath

#17. Leadership is all about right and wrong.

Edward Heath

#18. Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement

Edward Heath

#19. We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament

Edward Heath

#20. You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified

Edward Heath

#21. This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister.

Edward Heath

#22. Pitt the Younger was a great British Prime Minister. He saved Europe from Napoleon, he was the pilot who weathered the storm. I don't know whether he'd have done it any better or quicker had he been married.

Edward Heath