Michael Heseltine Quotes

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

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

The market has no morality

The British public sees with blinding clarity.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I always knew that Neil Kinnock belonged in the economic nursery. Now, God help us we've got twins.

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.

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied.

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.

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

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.

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