John Howard
John Howard
John Winston Howard, OM, AC, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. Only Sir Robert Menzies has served in the position longer...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth26 July 1939
CountryAustralia
assets military readily
If any military assets are needed, they will be readily available.
challenges climate global-warming
I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.
liberty important alive
The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...
just-believe accountants
She was my accountant, so I just believed her.
christian doctrine needs
When the term Christian or even Protestant is used, it seldom refers to any particularly evangelical doctrine or way of life. More often it refers to a religion accepted by the large majority, which assures them that God is not so much a Lord who demands obedience as a handyman who is available whenever we need help.
wages economic instruments
I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.
christian war doe
If the tradition which claims that war may be justified does not also admit that it could be unjustified, the affirmation is not morally serious. A Christian who prepares the case for a justified war without being equally prepared for hte negative case has not soberly weighted the prima facie presumption that any violence is wrong until the case for an exception has been made.
pigs
You can't fatten the pig on market day.
fitness cycling bikers
The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.
wrestling reality self
The believer's cross is no longer any and every kind of suffering, sickness, or tension, the bearing of which is demanded. The believer's cross must be, like his Lord's, the price of his social nonconformity. It is not, like sickness or catastrophe, an inexplicable, unpredictable suffering; it is the end of the path freely chosen after counting the cost. It is not, like Luther's or Thomas Muntzer's or Zinzendorf's or Kierkegaard's cross, an inward wrestling of the sensitive soul with self and sin; it is the social reality of representing in an unwilling world the Order to come.
lunch people busy
People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.
detours kingdoms way
The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.
additional circumstance dangerous sought unusual
We live in unusual circumstances. In other circumstances I would never have sought these additional powers. But we do live in very dangerous and different and threatening circumstances.
australia commitment developing further great relationship
There is great commitment in Australia to further developing the relationship between our two countries.