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" Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system. "

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" The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration, the Second World War, which divided the continent until the end of the century. "

" I have long believed, especially after the unprovoked Western attack on Iraq and the ransacking of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, that North Korea would not desist from the full development of its nuclear weapons program, despite threats and sanctions from the West and even from China. "

" Aboriginal art and culture draws from the land, for Aboriginality and the land are essential to each other and are inseparable. "

" 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. "

" When one has been touched by the stellar power and ethereal playing of a sublime musician, one is lifted, if only briefly, to a place beyond the realm of the temporal. "

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

" The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia. Notwithstanding a controversial prime ministership, in later years he harboured one abiding and important idea about Australia - its need and its right to be a strategically independent country. "

" I have said before, you don't expect conservative parties to believe in much, but you do expect them to believe in thrift. "

" 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. "

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

" Truth is, of its essence, liberating, as it is possessed of no contrivance or conceit - that it provides the only genuine basis for progress and that the future can only be found in truth. "

" The only reward in a public life is public progress. You stand back and say, 'What did I get out of it?' You look around, and the place is better, and that's it. "

" I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know? "

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

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

" The more we view the country through the prism of Aboriginality, the more likely we are to get the angle right. "

" A more worldly and competent foreign and defence policy is by far the preferred first line of defence - rather than the default position of relying on expensive but problematic hardware. "

" One of the inevitable aspects of debates about euthanasia is the reluctance on the part of advocates to confront the essence of what they propose. "

" 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. "

" The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state destinies overlaid by notions of cultural superiority peppered with racism. "

" Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage. "

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

" 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? "

" The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present. "

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

" When we were actually in the Keating reform era, the Business Council was of no help. "

" What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists. "

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

" 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. "

" As prime minister, the pastoral lease question was a very vexing and torrid one for me. "