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

    Michael Heseltine: Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
    "Noble obliges". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2006.