Bob Hawke Quotes About Trade

Quotes about: Trade

• There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

  Bob Hawke

  Country, Government, Doubt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• I assumed the leadership within the Commonwealth for the fight against apartheid. I was very much assisted by Brian Mulroney, the Prime Minister of Canada, [and] Rajiv Gandhi, when he became the Prime Minister of India. And there were trade sanctions.

  Bob Hawke

  Fighting, India, Canada

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

• When George Bush Senior [George HW Bush] was getting his alliance together to go into Iraq - to kick the Iraqis out of Kuwait - he rang me up. I was very close to George Bush Senior; I got to know him well as Vice President to Ronald Reagan. And George rang me up and said, "Oh, Bob," he said, "I'm having trouble with Brian [Mulroney]." He said, "He's got a big wheat trade with Iraq, and he doesn't want to upset that." I said, "You leave it with me."

  Bob Hawke

  Senior, Kuwait, Iraq

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

• I rang Brian [Mulroney] up. I said, "What's this bloody nonsense. You've got a wheat trade with Iraq and you won't come aboard?" I said, "We've got a bloody big wheat trade too, so get your priorities right." And he said, "Okay, Bob. I'll come." I rang George and he was very appreciative.

  Bob Hawke

  Iraq, Priorities, Bob

  Source: www.commonwealthoralhistories.org

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