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
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I think we have been silent for too long about the impact of some of these things. You cannot keep bombarding people with violent messages and anti-social messages without them having some impact.
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What the show deals with is how difficult it can be. It involves people from every walk of life and they all take an enormous risk.
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If anything, it's helped in implementing this solution. We've had no incidents of that kind. I think that the huge majority of users come in here for credible reasons wanting to learn or do some type of research. This is targeted solely on people who want to come and do something other than research.
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Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.
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People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.
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Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.
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I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life...
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You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.
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I see it as an ongoing attempt by terrorists to undermine democratic Indonesia.
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Our role here, the battlefield is here to commemorate the fighting and the soldiers who fought and died here.
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I think I'm seen as trustworthy. I'm seen as having determination and persistence, and I'm seen as having a capacity to reach achievable answers to difficult issues.
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We'll cooperate, but I want to make it plain that we're not going to alter our policy in relation to mandatory detention.
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Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.
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I won't indicate at this stage that I'm sympathetic to this or that possible change.