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

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

" What we have to do is make our way in Asia ourselves with an independent foreign policy. Our future is basically in the region around us in South East Asia. "

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" Russia alone has the capacity to obliterate the United States. "

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" At its best, Aboriginal art has been effective in translating an entire culture and the understanding of an entire continent. Indeed, the more we interpret Australia through Aboriginal eyes, through the experience of their long and epic story, the more we allow ourselves to understand the land we share. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up. "

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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. "

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" In the end, rational policy is always good. "

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