Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Heseltine

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, is a British politician and businessman. Having begun his career as a property developer, he became one of the founders of the publishing house Haymarket. Heseltine served as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1966 to 2001, and was a prominent figure in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major, and served as Deputy Prime Minister and First Secretary of State under Major.

British - Politician | Born: March 21, 1933

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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

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

Michael Heseltine

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

The British public sees with blinding clarity.

Michael Heseltine

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

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

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

Michael Heseltine

The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable

Michael Heseltine

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

Michael Heseltine

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

Michael Heseltine

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

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

Michael Heseltine

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

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

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

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

Michael Heseltine

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

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

Michael Heseltine

The market has no morality

Michael Heseltine

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

Michael Heseltine

Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Michael Heseltine

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