Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" My claim has always been that defeatism pervaded the conservative parties in the 1930s and that it was the defining characteristic of Menzies and his first period as prime minister. "
Paul Keating
First
Always
Been
Related Quotes:
" The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished. "
Paul Keating
European
Show
Just
" 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. "
Paul Keating
Progress
Only
Truth Is
" I have said before, you don't expect conservative parties to believe in much, but you do expect them to believe in thrift. "
Paul Keating
Believe
Conservative
You
" 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. "
Paul Keating
Empires
War
Heart
" 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. "
Paul Keating
About
Inevitable
Essence
" 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. "
Paul Keating
Life
Place
Stand
" Aboriginal art and culture draws from the land, for Aboriginality and the land are essential to each other and are inseparable. "
Paul Keating
Other
Aboriginal
Art
" 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. "
Paul Keating
More
Position
First
" 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
World
Positive
History
" I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the top off and swallow it down.' You know, confidence has to be earned. "
Paul Keating
You
Top
Know
" What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists. "
Paul Keating
Power
Before
First
" The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism. "
Paul Keating
Political
Modern
Life
" I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage. "
Paul Keating
Maximum
Advantage
Use
" I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know? "
Paul Keating
Always
You
Know
" 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. "
Paul Keating
Power
Only
Place
" 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
You
Open
Military
" 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
Think
Like
Accept
" 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
Australia
See
You
" 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. "
Paul Keating
Policy
Way
Us
" In the end, rational policy is always good. "
Paul Keating
Always
Good
In The End
" 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
Need
Great
View
" Geoffrey Tozer's death is a national tragedy. For the Australian arts and Australian music, losing Tozer is like Canada having lost Glenn Gould, or France, Ginette Neveu. It is a massive cultural loss. The kind of loss people felt when Germany lost Dresden. "
Paul Keating
People
Loss
Losing
" I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out. "
Paul Keating
Country
Out
Welcome
" 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. "
Paul Keating
China
Long
Development
" The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region. "
Paul Keating
Good
United
United States
" Russia alone has the capacity to obliterate the United States. "
Paul Keating
Russia
United States
United
" If you can't imagine it, you sure as hell are never going to see it. "
Paul Keating
Imagine
Going
Hell
" One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know. "
Paul Keating
Still
Tires
I Can
" When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field. "
Paul Keating
Down
Field
Off
" 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
Great
Been
Passion