Kevin Rudd Quotes

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• My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

  Kevin Rudd

  Names, Kevin, Helping

  Kevin Rudd (2017). “Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007”, p.299, Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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• Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

  Kevin Rudd

  Phds, Excuse, Starting

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• We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

  Kevin Rudd

  Moving, Firsts, Recognition

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

  Kevin Rudd

  Giving, People, Community

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• I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference .

  Kevin Rudd

  Ambition, Differences, Long

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• Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

  Kevin Rudd

  Education, Justice, Tools

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• I'm not gay, im just liberal-curious

  Kevin Rudd

  Gay, Curious

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• There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.

  Kevin Rudd

  Bits

  Kevin Rudd's farewell speech in Canberra, www.theaustralian.com.au. June 24, 2010.

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• By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

  Kevin Rudd

  Humor, Australia, Way

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• A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country, Australia.

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Opportunity, Australia

  "Australia's apology in full". www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2008.

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• Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.

  Kevin Rudd

  Leadership, Responsibility, Power

  Kevin Rudd (2017). “Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007”, p.9, Macmillan Publishers Aus.

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• It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.

  Kevin Rudd

  Way, Economy, Unlikely

  "Rudd bamboozles Germans with 'programmatic specificity'". Perth Now, July 9, 2009.

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• The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.

  Kevin Rudd

  New Relationship, Responsibility, Apology

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough

  Kevin Rudd

  Bridges, Gone, Enough

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• Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

  Kevin Rudd

  Promise, Opinion, Election

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• Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

  Kevin Rudd

  Anger, Years, Hatred

  "Late Night Live" with Phillip Adams, www.abc.net.au. August 4, 2010.

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• Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.

  Kevin Rudd

  Dirty, Compassion, Vocabulary

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• Would you like to work at home and earn $150 per hour with data entry?

  Kevin Rudd

  Home, Data, Hours

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• I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.

  Kevin Rudd

  Party, Believe, Men

  FaceBook post by Kevin Rudd from Feb 22, 2012

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• I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.

  Kevin Rudd

  Lying, Apology, Challenges

  "Late Night Live" with Phillip Adams, www.abc.net.au. August 4, 2010.

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• For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.

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  Fire, Rivers, Risk

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• There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states.

  Kevin Rudd

  Imperfection, Democracy, Criticism

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage.

  Kevin Rudd

  Gay, Two, Normal

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• But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability.

  Kevin Rudd

  Strong, Australia, Challenges

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.

  Kevin Rudd

  Leadership, Grief, Moving

  "David Leyonhjelm parodies Kevin Rudd's apology to stolen generations". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2016.

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