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.

- Edward Heath

Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.

- Edward Heath

Do you know what Margaret Thatcher did in her first Budget? Introduced VAT on yachts! It somewhat ruined my retirement.

- Edward Heath

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

- Edward Heath

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.

- Edward Heath

The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.

- Edward Heath

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

- Edward Heath

There is no question of any erosion of essential national sovereignty.

- Edward Heath

I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.

- Edward Heath