Michael Heseltine Quotes

• 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.

  Michael Heseltine

  Hands, Feels

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

  Michael Heseltine

  Men, Enemy, Proud

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

  Michael Heseltine

  Party, Names, Conservative

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

  Michael Heseltine

  Mistake, Humble, Forgotten

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• The British public sees with blinding clarity.

  Michael Heseltine

  Clarity, British

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• My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result that we've seen in Britain.

  Michael Heseltine

  Believe, Preoccupation, Referendums

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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

  Michael Heseltine

  Politics, Stretching, Obsessive

  "Noble obliges". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2006.

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• Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

  Michael Heseltine

  Bullied, Mrs Thatcher

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

  Michael Heseltine

  Helping, Twins, Nursery

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• 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.

  Michael Heseltine

  Flower, Years, Tree

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• 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.

  Michael Heseltine

  Trust, Cabinets, Prime

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• The market has no morality

  Michael Heseltine

  Responsibility, Ethics, Morality

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

  Michael Heseltine

  Handbags, Empty, Chairs

  "Making the case for a generation". www.theguardian.com. October 14, 1999.

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• 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.

  Michael Heseltine

  Reading, Remember, Prime

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

  Michael Heseltine

  Leadership, Credit, Blame

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• 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.

  Michael Heseltine

  People, Brilliant, Said

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

  Michael Heseltine

  Book, Faces, Sticker

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• The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable

  Michael Heseltine

  Party, Fundamentals, Conservative

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

  Michael Heseltine

  Oysters, Two, World

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

  Michael Heseltine

  Lunch, Office, Imagine

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