Nick Xenophon Quotes

• In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.

  Nick Xenophon

  Believe, Law, Australia

  "Science or Fiction?" by Natasha Bita, www.theaustralian.com.au. November 20, 2009.

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• If you run for election with a particular agenda about saving jobs, about strengthening manufacturing and farming jobs, about tackling predatory gambling and making governments accountable, if there's an opportunity to achieve that agenda with either side of politics, particularly if you come from the political centre, then it's an opportunity you should take up.

  Nick Xenophon

  Running, Jobs, Opportunity

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

  Nick Xenophon

  Political, Sides, Good Things

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

  Nick Xenophon

  Jobs, Compromise, Interest

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who don't make the headlines. These are people who have felt that their sense - their grief, their sense of injustice has been compounded by a system that just doesn't work, that just doesn't listen to victims, that effectively disempowers them all too often.

  Nick Xenophon

  Grief, People, Justice

  "Legal Eagles Discuss Justice System". "Stateline" on ABC, May 13, 2005.

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• I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater.

  Nick Xenophon

  Politician, Very Good, Knows

  "From Brash Young Liberal to Senate Linchpin for Nick Xenophon" by Jamie Walker, www.theaustralian.com.au. June 28, 2008.

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