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It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.
Russia alone has the capacity to obliterate the United States.
What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.
One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.
I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
It is the first time the burglar has been appointed as caretaker.
Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way
He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.
One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.
Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.
Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.
There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.
The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.
If you can't imagine it, you sure as hell are never going to see it.
We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.
I'm angry and I understand why Australians paying mortgages are angry.
Would you like to work at home and earn $150 per hour with data entry?
Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls
Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.
From that first wage case in 1958, I had, pretty much, rock star status.
The Unknown is an ocean. What is conscience? The compass of the Unknown.
Maoris now own over half the commercial fishing industry in New Zealand.
Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising.
Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it.
It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow
I believe [ Rajiv Gandhi] had a real sense that he would be assassinated.
How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?
Education's net economic benefits are greater than many other investments.
Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women.
Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong
I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.
The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.
[ Rajiv Gandhi] was such an infinitely more attractive leader than his mother.
Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.
I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.
We are building together a nation in which there are no second-class Australians.
Climate change is real and it is caused to a significant extent by human activity.
The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.
I really had very little to do with Pierre Trudeau. He was off the scene very soon.
I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.
I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.
The great thing about music is that whatever you're into, you see new possibilities.
In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.
Dying will happen sometime. As you know, I plan for the ages, not just for this life.
Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.