Edward Heath Quotes

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

  Edward Heath

  Workout, Men, Thinking

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• Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

  Edward Heath

  Unemployment, Unemployed, Jobless

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• 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

  Revolution, Quiet, Parliament

  Edward Heath's speech to Conservative Party Conference (October 10, 1970), as quoted in John Campbell "Edward Heath" (p. 311), 1993.

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• There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.

  Edward Heath

  Erosion, Europe, Essentials

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• I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.

  Edward Heath

  Party, Labour Party, Wells

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

  Edward Heath

  Retirement, Vat, Firsts

  "'Whatever the lady does is wrong'". www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2005.

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  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

  Wise, People, House

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• The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.

  Edward Heath

  Faces, Capitalism

  'Hansard' 15 May 1973, col. 1243 (on the Lonrho affair)

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• I am not a product of privilege, I am a product of opportunity.

  Edward Heath

  Opportunity, Privilege, Products

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A ready smile concealed a firm mind.

  Edward Heath

  Mind, Firm, Ready

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• 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

  Children, Sick, Unions

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• If politicians lived on praise and thanks they'd be forced into some other line of business.

  Edward Heath

  Political, Lines, Politics

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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  I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

  Edward Heath

  Thinking, Government, Would Be

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• Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

  Edward Heath

  Economics, Economic, Protectionism

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• Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

  Edward Heath

  Attitude, Moral, Apartheid

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• 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

  Party, Scotland, Victory

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• I said it three times actually.

  Edward Heath

  America, Three, World

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• 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

  Europe, Storm, Done

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• Leadership is all about right and wrong.

  Edward Heath

  Leadership

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• I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

  Edward Heath

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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

  Edward Heath

  Running, Frustrated, Wish

  Edward Heath's speech at the Hotel Exhibition in Olympia, 1969.

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• 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

  Eight, Government, Years

  Interview, 1982.

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

  Edward Heath

  Population, Would Be, Prime

  Interview, November 1976.

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• 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

  Country, Mean, Men

  Edward Heath's remarks to the press after Harold Wilson was hit by eggs thrown by demonstrators on two successive days (June 1, 1970), as quoted in Edward Heath "The Course of My Life" (p. 305), 1998.

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• Other countries have far greater problems than we have.

  Edward Heath

  Country, Problem, Greater

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