Michael Heseltine quotes
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“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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“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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“The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable”
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“Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.”
-- Michael HeseltineSource : "Noble obliges". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2006.
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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.”
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“The British public sees with blinding clarity.”
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“They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.”
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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.”
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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 HeseltineSource : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
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“I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.”
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“Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.”
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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.”
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“You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.”
-- Michael HeseltineSource : "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.”
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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.”
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“One has to live with the ignominy of a garish sticker slapped over one's face, proclaiming '?”
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“In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.”
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“The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.”
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“You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch.”
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