Paul Keating Quotes

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• If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

  Paul Keating

  University Degrees, Class, Greed

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• He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

  Paul Keating

  Running, Witty, Clever

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• We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.

  Paul Keating

  Jobs, Hypocrite, Duplicity

  Campaign Launch Speech in Melbourne, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 14, 1996.

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• Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

  Paul Keating

  Strong, Nice, Being Nice

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• We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.

  Paul Keating

  Leadership, Mother, Children

  "Keating speech still powerful 25 years on". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 8, 2017.

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• I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, Two, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is looming on the horizon. It's not visible yet but it certainly exists there and it won't be my generation that has to deal with the fact that the world is not bountiful forever, that the ocean and the atmosphere are not free goods to be abused, that will have to feed these vast populations. That will be your generation.

  Paul Keating

  Ocean, Forever, Atmosphere

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• For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's like one of those deep diamond mined holes in South Africa, you know, they're about a mile underground. He'd have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium, let alone have any contest in morality with Kevin Rudd.

  Paul Keating

  Kevin, Lasts, Firsts

  "Keating Criticises Alp Over Compulsory Super Plan". Interview with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. March 05, 2007.

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• The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

  Paul Keating

  Party, Political, Conviction

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• You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

  Paul Keating

  Government, Position

  "Paul Keating Launches Book on Whitlam Dismissal". "The World Today", www.abc.net.au. November 09, 2005.

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• If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

  Paul Keating

  Government, Australia, Done

  Interview with John Laws, Radio 2GB, May 14, 1986.

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• Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

  Paul Keating

  Men, Three, Politician

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• In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

  Paul Keating

  Leadership, Keys, People

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• I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.

  Paul Keating

  Taken, Mean, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

  Paul Keating

  Australia, Asia, Regions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.

  Paul Keating

  Australia, Would Be, Unthinkable

  "Ned Kelly and 'Mary Poppins' Writer Among Top Irish-Australians". www.irishtimes.com. August 19, 2009.

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• The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

  Paul Keating

  Passion, Belief, Process

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

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• Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?

  Paul Keating

  Morning, Silly, Names

  "Vintage Keating". Book by Brian Carroll, 2010.

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• The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.

  Paul Keating

  Morning, Party, People

  "Lateline" interview, June 7, 2007.

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• [Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the same fellow that gave them the 15 years of good growth and high wealth that came from it?

  Paul Keating

  Years, Growth, Triumph

  "7:30 Report" interview, May 08, 2006.

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• The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

  Paul Keating

  Political, Life Is, Modern

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

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• Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

  Paul Keating

  Achieve, Extraordinary, Australian

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• I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

  Paul Keating

  Country, Thinking, Australia

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

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• If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.

  Paul Keating

  Block, Land, Titles

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.

  Paul Keating

  Lying, Choices, Geography

  "A Prospect of Europe". Speech at the University of New South Wales, www.keating.org.au. September 04, 1997.

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