„Prawdziwy problem życiowy w dzisiejszych czasach: mieć dość czasu na myślenie.”
Źródło: Nieprzyjemne prawdy. Aforyzmy naszych czasów, KAW, 1987, s. 7.
Edward Richard Heath KG, MBE – brytyjski polityk, premier w latach 1970–1974 i przewodniczący Partii Konserwatywnej 1965-1975.
Heath był głównym negocjatorem w rozmowach o przystąpieniu Wielkiej Brytanii do EWG. Jego rząd upadł w wyniku strajków górniczych.
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„Prawdziwy problem życiowy w dzisiejszych czasach: mieć dość czasu na myślenie.”
Źródło: Nieprzyjemne prawdy. Aforyzmy naszych czasów, KAW, 1987, s. 7.
1992.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech to Conservative Party Conference (12 October 1968), quoted in John Campbell, Edward Heath (London: Jonathan Cape, 1993), p. 245.
Leader of the Opposition
Describing the scene at Conservative central office after winning the 1970 general election.[citation needed]
Leader of the Opposition
Opening statement at the United Kingdom application to join the EEC in Paris (10 October 1961), quoted in Edward Heath, The Course of My Life (Hodder and Stoughton, 1998), p. 214.
Lord Privy Seal
Broadcast to the nation (13 December 1973).[citation needed]
Prime Minister
Speech in the House of Commons (14 July 1989) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1989/jul/14/foreign-affairs
Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech in Nelson, Lancashire (22 November 1973), quoted in The Times (23 November 1973), p. 2.
Prime Minister
Speech to the Federation of Conservative Students in Manchester (6 October 1981), quoted in The Times (7 October 1981), p. 6. Margaret Thatcher had read Heath's advance text and responded http://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/104712 by saying that "To me consensus seems to be—the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies in search of something in which no-one believes, but to which no-one objects".
Post-Prime Ministerial
“I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.”
Speech at the Hotel Exhibition, Olympia, 1969.[citation needed]
Leader of the Opposition
Newspaper article, February 1975.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech in Wilton Park, Sussex (21 June 1971), quoted in The Times (22 June 1971), p. 5
Prime Minister
“They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman.”
On Margaret Thatcher's election to the leadership of the Tory Party, 1975.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech in the House of Commons (27 November 1980) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1980/nov/27/industry-and-the-economy
Post-Prime Ministerial
Interviewed in 1982 about Margaret Thatcher's attitude towards him and his government.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech at European conference after France vetoed the British application to join the EEC (28 January 1963), quoted in Edward Heath, The Course of My Life (Hodder and Stoughton, 1998), p. 235.
Lord Privy Seal
Remarks to the press after Harold Wilson was hit by eggs thrown by demonstrators on two successive days (1 June 1970), quoted in Edward Heath, The Course of My Life (Hodder and Stoughton, 1998), p. 305.
Leader of the Opposition
“I was interested in being present for its first, and I trust only, performance.”
After hearing a new choral work at Gloucester Cathedral, 1975.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech to Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool (14 October 1972), quoted in John Campbell, Edward Heath (London: Jonathan Cape, 1993), pp. 473-474.
Prime Minister
“We shall have a harder Christmas than we have known since the war.”
ibid. Reported in Time magazine (24 December 1973). It was spoken on television. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj9OlIiHFo4
Prime Minister
1989.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech in the House of Commons (27 November 1980) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1980/nov/27/industry-and-the-economy
Post-Prime Ministerial
“I think Churchill would be appalled at the Thatcher government.”
1989.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech in the House of Commons (15 May 1973) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1973/may/15/cbi-and-tuc-talks
Prime Minister
Speech in the House of Commons (26 June 1991) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1991/jun/26/European-Community
Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech to the Federation of Conservative Students in Manchester (6 October 1981), quoted in The Times (7 October 1981), p. 6.
Post-Prime Ministerial
Speech in the House of Commons (11 April 1984) http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1984/apr/11/local-government-interim-provisions-bill opposing the 'paving Bill' preparing for abolition of the Greater London Council, 1984.
Post-Prime Ministerial
“He is not mad in the least. He's a very astute person, a clever person.”
On Saddam Hussein, undated.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial
February 1975.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial
“Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.”
1989.[citation needed]
Post-Prime Ministerial
His full response supposedly made to Margaret Thatcher when she informed him she would be standing against him for the Conservative leadership in 1975. Attributed to him in his Daily Telegraph obituary http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1494246/Sir-Edward-Heath.html (18 July 2005), although disputed by Heath's autobiography.
Disputed