Michael Heseltine Quotes
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The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable
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The two super-powers cannot divide the world into their oyster.
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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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Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
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Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.
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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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They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.
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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.
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The British public sees with blinding clarity.
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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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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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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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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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In the end leaders are leaders. They get the credit and they get the blame.
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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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You can't wield a handbag from an empty chair.
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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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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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The market has no morality
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You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch.
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