Heseltine Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Michael Heseltine, a wild-haired visionary, Klaus Kinski to Margaret's Thatcher's Werner Herzog, pushed Docklands across the Thames to the East Greenwich Peninsula. The Millennium Dome concept was a remake of 'Fitzcarraldo', a film in which suborned natives (expendable extras) drag a paddle steamer over a hill in order to force a short cut to more exploitable territory. The point being to bring Enrico Caruso, one of the gods of opera, to an upstream trading post. An insane achievement mirrored in the rebranding of the Dome, after its long and expensive limbo, as the O2 Arena, a popular showcase for cryogenic rock acts:Norma Desmond divas and the resurrected Michael Jackson, whose virtual rebirth,post-mortem, gave the shabby tent the status of a riverside cathedral. — Iain Sinclair

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

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

The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable — Michael Heseltine

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

Mrs Thatcher was not lightly bullied. — Michael Heseltine

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

The British public sees with blinding clarity. — 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

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

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

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

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

The market has no morality — 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

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