Michael Heseltine famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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
The market has no morality
-- Michael Heseltine

#Responsibility #Morality #Ethics
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
The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable
-- Michael Heseltine

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

#Politics #Stretching #Obsessive
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 #Ministers
The British public sees with blinding clarity.
-- Michael Heseltine

#Clarity #British
They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.
-- Michael Heseltine

#Men #Enemy #Proud
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
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
I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.
-- Michael Heseltine

#Helping #Twins #Nursery
Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.
-- Michael Heseltine

#Bullied #Mrs Thatcher
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
You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.
-- Michael Heseltine

#Handbags #Empty #Chairs
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
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
One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?
-- Michael Heseltine

#Book #Faces #Sticker
In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.
-- Michael Heseltine

#Leadership #Credit #Blame
The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.
-- Michael Heseltine

#Oysters #Two #World
You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch.
-- Michael Heseltine

#Lunch #Office #Imagine

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