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

Edward Heath

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Edward Heath
Age: 89 †
Born: 1916
Born: July 9
Died: 2005
Died: July 17
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I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.
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I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.
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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.
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A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing.
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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.
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The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
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You mustn't expect prime ministers to enjoy themselves. If they do, they mustn't show it - the population would be horrified.
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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.
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Leadership is all about right and wrong.
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Other countries have far greater problems than we have.
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Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.
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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.
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Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.
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There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.
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A ready smile concealed a firm mind.
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We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.
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