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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" If you can't imagine it, you sure as hell are never going to see it. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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