Paul Keating Quotes - Page 2

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• The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

  Paul Keating

  Party, Two, Together

  "Keating criticises ALP over compulsory super plan". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. March 5, 2007.

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• John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, Guy, Police

  "Keating in the Hot Seat". Interview with Kerry O'Brien, www.abc.net.au. August 06, 2008.

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• Good economics is good politics.

  Paul Keating

  Business, Economics

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• When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

  Paul Keating

  Wall, Victory, Fields

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

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• Think of one structural change in 11 years he made, other than being just doling out money in the annual Budget? And don't say the GST because Howard did that and it wasn't a structural change anyway, just a change in the tax system. This is a low flying person.

  Paul Keating

  Flying, Lows, Persons

  "Keating in the Hot Seat". Interview with Kerry O'Brien, www.abc.net.au. August 06, 2008.

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• One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

  Paul Keating

  Tire, Combat, Stills

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• I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, People, Reform

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, in a new way, armed with our own self-regard, our own confidence and fully appreciating our own uniqueness. All other roads will lead us into the shadow of great powers.

  Paul Keating

  Self, Ideas, Australia

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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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• You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

  Paul Keating

  Military, Chinese, Friendly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

  Paul Keating

  Business, Humility, Pride

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

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• Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off.

  Paul Keating

  Running, Doe, Littles

  "Keating in the Hot Seat". Interview with Kerry O'Brien, www.abc.net.au. August 06, 2008.

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• In the end, rational policy is always good.

  Paul Keating

  Ends, Rational, Policy

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

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• I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

  Paul Keating

  Trying, Use, Advantage

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

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• I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

  Paul Keating

  Thinking, Events, World

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

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• The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.

  Paul Keating

  Shows, Finished

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

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• You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

  Paul Keating

  Two, Australia Day, Government

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.

  Paul Keating

  Australia, May, Opponents

  Election Concession Speech, australianpolitics.com. March 02, 1996.

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• Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?

  Paul Keating

  Country, Australia, May

  "Interview with former prime minister Paul Keating". "Lateline" with Tone Jones, www.abc.net.au. November 15, 2012.

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• The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

  Paul Keating

  United States, Asia, Good Things

  "Paul Keating welcomes the rise of China". "Lateline" with Tone Jones, www.abc.net.au. November 24, 2011.

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• Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

  Paul Keating

  Want, Economic, Majors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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