Paul Keating quotes

" 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. " # Pride # Humility # Death and Dying

" From this day onwards, Howard will wear his leadership like a crown of thorns, and in the parliament I'll do everything to crucify him. " # Leaders and Leadership # Marriage # Parliament

" 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. " # Friends and Friendship # Economy and Economics # Government

" Where members opposite all come a gutser is in the fact that members on this side all think that we were born to rule you. It has been ingrained in me from childhood to think that my mission in life is to run you, and the Prime Minister (Mr Hawke) thinks that his mission in life is to run you. In fact, the labour movement-that is, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the great industrial labour movement of Australia-thinks that its mission in life is to run you. " # Politicians and Politics # Mission # Life and Living

" A dog returning to his vomit " # Home

" The Placido Domingo of Australian politics. " # Politicians and Politics

" It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. 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. " # Love # Alcohol and Alcoholism # Prejudice

" I would forbid him going going to the Senate, to account to this unrepresentative swill over there... " # Life and Living # Congress # Politicians and Politics

" This is the sweetest victory of all. This is a victory for the true believers; the people who, in difficult times, have kept the faith. " # Faith # Love # Victory

" 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. " # Professions and Professionals # Ambition # Questions