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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

#Jobs #Hypocrisy #Community
“If there was a university degree for greed, you ***** would all get first-class honours.”
-- Paul Keating

#Class #Greed #Political
“Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.”
-- Paul Keating

#Men #Three #Politician
“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.”
-- Paul Keating

#Australia #May #Opponents
“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

#Taken #Mean #Views
“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

#Self #Ideas #Australia
“The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.”
-- Paul Keating

#Party #Political #Conviction
“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.”
-- Paul Keating

#Thinking #Guy #Police
“You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.”
-- Paul Keating

#Government #Position
“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up”
-- Paul Keating

#Running #Clever #Spine
“One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.”
-- Paul Keating

#Tire #Combat #Stills
“The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together”
-- Paul Keating

#Party #Two #Together
“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

#Kevin #Lasts #Firsts
“Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?”
-- Paul Keating

#Morning #Silly #Names
“This is a low flying person”
-- Paul Keating

#Flying #Lows #Persons
“Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.”
-- Paul Keating

#Want #Economic
“In the end, rational policy is always good.”
-- Paul Keating

#Ends #Rational #Policy
“While frenetic activity, in the end suiting journos; running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off”
-- Paul Keating

#Running #Littles #Pay
“We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. 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 these things being done to us.”
-- Paul Keating

#Leadership #Mother #Children
“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

#Ocean #Forever #Abuse
“[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

#Years #Growth #World
“I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.”
-- Paul Keating

#Trying #Use #Advantage
“The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.”
-- Paul Keating

#Political #Life Is #Modern
“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

#Morning #Party #People
“When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, Victory, and walked off the field.”
-- Paul Keating

#Wall #Victory #Berlin
“The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.”
-- Paul Keating

#Passion #Belief #Process
“I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.”
-- Paul Keating

#Thinking #Two #Imagination
“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

#Thinking #People #Reform
“The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.”
-- Paul Keating

#Asia #United States #Good Things
“In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.”
-- Paul Keating

#Leadership #Keys #Imagination

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