Quotes by Paul Keating - Page 2

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 / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Competent
Default
Expensive
Hardware
Policy
Position
Worldly
More Than Far
Preferred
Problematic
Relying
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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.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Conceit
Essence
Genuine
Liberating
Possessed
Provides
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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.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Courage
Independence
Adversity
Bravery
Ingenuity
Resilience
Sacrifice
Troops
Cultural
Legend
Notions
Reinforce
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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.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Government
Australia Day
Australian
British
Commonwealth
Meetings
Pacific
Prime Minister
Two
Attended
Became
Forum
Heads
Meeting
Minister
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No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Choices
Geography
Lying
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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.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
First World War
Quagmire
Racism
Superiority
Virtue
Complex
Cultural
Destinies
Devoid
European
First World
Notions
World War
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Aftermath
Civilisation
Destroyed
Divided
Empires
First World War
Second World War
Continent
First World
Led
World War
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We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Jobs
Duplicity
Hypocrite
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If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Government
Australia
Done
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Australia
Australian
Country
Former
May
Ministers
National Interests
Speak
Best Interests
Frankly
Interests
National
Prime Ministers
Role
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The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Morning
Party
People
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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.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Australian
Format
People
Reform
Thinking
Accept
Conscientious
Respond
People Accept Will
Reforms
Necessary
Presented
Proved
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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.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Australian
Canada
France
Germany
Losing
Massive
Tragedy
Arts
Cultural
Geoffrey
National
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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.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Architecture
Native
Pacific
Republic
Perhaps
Piece
Title
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The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia. Notwithstanding a controversial prime ministership, in later years he harboured one abiding and important idea about Australia - its need and its right to be a strategically independent country.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Death
Australia
Controversial
Independent
Loss
Prime
Abide
Later
Malcolm
Notwithstanding
Strategically
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Think of one structural change in 11 years he made, other than being just doling out money in the annual Budget? And don't say the GST because Howard did that and it wasn't a structural change anyway, just a change in the tax system. This is a low flying person.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Flying
Lows
Persons
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A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Ambition
Country
Migration
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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.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Space
Britain
China
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Europe
Germany
Mean
Russia
States
Strategic
Taken
Everywhere
Washington
George
Held
Iii
View
Took
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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 / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
China
Despite
Development
Gaddafi
Iraq
Libya
North Korea
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Program
Sanctions
Weapons
West
Attack
Believed
Full
North
Regime
Threats
Unprovoked
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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.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Experience
Aboriginal
Australia
Epic
Land
Long
Share
Understand
Allow
Continent
Effective
Entire
Eyes
Indeed
Interpret
Story
Translating
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The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, in a new way, armed with our own self-regard, our own confidence and fully appreciating our own uniqueness. All other roads will lead us into the shadow of great powers.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Australia
Ideas
Self
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We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Leadership
Children
Mother
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For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's like one of those deep diamond mined holes in South Africa, you know, they're about a mile underground. He'd have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium, let alone have any contest in morality with Kevin Rudd.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Firsts
Kevin
Lasts
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[Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the same fellow that gave them the 15 years of good growth and high wealth that came from it?
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Growth
Triumph
Years
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One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is looming on the horizon. It's not visible yet but it certainly exists there and it won't be my generation that has to deal with the fact that the world is not bountiful forever, that the ocean and the atmosphere are not free goods to be abused, that will have to feed these vast populations. That will be your generation.
Paul Keating / Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Ocean
Abuse
Atmosphere
Forever
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