Top 31 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Heath

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Sir Edward Richard George Heath, often known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath also served for 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001. Outside of politics, Heath was a yachtsman, a musician, and an author.

English - Leader | July 9, 1916 - July 17, 2005

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We may be a small island, but we are not a small people.

Edward Heath

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

Edward Heath

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

Edward Heath

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

Edward Heath

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

Edward Heath

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

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

Edward Heath

Leadership is all about right and wrong.

Edward Heath

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

Edward Heath

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

I said it three times actually.

Edward Heath

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

Edward Heath

Other countries have far greater problems than we have.

Edward Heath

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

Protectionism is the institutionalization of economic failure.

Edward Heath

The historic role of the Conservative Party is to use the leverage of its political and diplomatic skills to create a fresh balance between the different elements within the state at those times when, for one reason or another, their imbalance threatens to disrupt the orderly development of society

Edward Heath

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

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

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

Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.

Edward Heath

I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?

Edward Heath

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

Edward Heath

A ready smile concealed a firm mind.

Edward Heath

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

Edward Heath

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

Edward Heath

We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.

Edward Heath

The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.

Edward Heath

I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.

Edward Heath

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

In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome.

Edward Heath

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

Edward Heath

Top 31 Quotes & Sayings by Edward Heath

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