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" When we were actually in the Keating reform era, the Business Council was of no help. "
Paul Keating
Business
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" Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished. "
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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. "
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" What the Anzac legend did do, by the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, was reinforce our own cultural notions of independence, mateship, and ingenuity. Of resilience and courage in adversity. "
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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. "
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" The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies. "
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" 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. "
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" When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field. "
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Field
Off
" I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage. "
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" One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know. "
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" Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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You
Open
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