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Good economics is good politics.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Business
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In the end, rational policy is always good.
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Good End Always
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He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up
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The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
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Life Is
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I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.
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Australian
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Russia alone has the capacity to obliterate the United States.
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Russia
United States
Obliterate
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One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.
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Stills
Tire
Although
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Throw
Tires
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If you can't imagine it, you sure as hell are never going to see it.
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Imagine
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I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.
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Australia
Country
Thinking
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Sign
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Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
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Politician
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Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong
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Strong
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The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.
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Asia
Good Things
States
United States
Good Thing
Region
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Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.
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Class
Keep Never Know
Carrying
Politicians
Fade
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Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
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Morning
Names
Silly
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Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.
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Australia
Unthinkable
Would Be
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I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
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Imagination
Thinking
Two
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The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.
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Finished
Shows
Atlantic
European
Fundamentally
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When we were actually in the Keating reform era, the Business Council was of no help.
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Council
Reform
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The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.
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As prime minister, the pastoral lease question was a very vexing and torrid one for me.
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Prime
Prime Minister
Minister
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Vexing
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When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.
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Berlin
Berlin Wall
Cried
Fields
Victory
Wall
Field
Walked
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If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.
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Class
Greed
University Degrees
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The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.
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Together
Two
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I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?
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Burning
Safe
Believed
Mr
Capital
Political Capital
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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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Imagination
Two
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Well
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You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.
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What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists.
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Distinguished
First World War
Massive
War Power World
Wars
First World
World War
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The more we view the country through the prism of Aboriginality, the more likely we are to get the angle right.
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Country More Right
Likely
Prism
View
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Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.
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Achieve
Australian
Extraordinary
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The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.
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Leadership
Essence
Responsibility
Interpret
Present
Taking
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Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Running
Doe
Littles
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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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Economic
Majors
Want
Banks
Nobody
Major
Upper
Wants
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I have said before, you don't expect conservative parties to believe in much, but you do expect them to believe in thrift.
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Thrift
Expect
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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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Aboriginal
Draws
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Each
Essential
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If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
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Business
Humility
Pride
Pushing
Die
Craft
Good Thing
Risking
Takes
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In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
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Leadership
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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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Australian
Retirement
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Scale
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Scheme
Putting
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If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it.
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Titles
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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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Essence
Euthanasia
Inevitable
Propose
Reluctance
Advocate
Aspects
Confront
Debates
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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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Belief
Civilisation
Passion
Process
Rational
Beliefs
Deduction
Held
Wrought
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In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.
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Australia
May
Opponents
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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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Asia
East
East Asia
Foreign Policy
Independent
Policy
Basically
Region
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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.
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Public Life
Stand
Around
Did
Back
Public
Say
Look
Life Look Better
Place
Reward
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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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Stellar
Sublime
Touched
Beyond
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Temporal
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John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.
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Police
Thinking
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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.
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Asia
Australia
Regions
Security
Psychologically
Region
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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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Popeye
Spinach
Cabinet
Earned
Swallow
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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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China
Economic
Events
Human History
Thinking
World
History Great World
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Positive Thing
Region
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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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Chinese
Friendly
Military
Wikileaks
Discovered
Option
Gesture
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Urging
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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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Prime
Prime Minister
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