Paul Keating
Paul Keating
Paul John Keatingis an Australian politician who was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia and the Leader of the Labor Party from 1991 to 1996. Born in a working-class Sydney suburb and having left school at 15, Keating was first elected to the House of Representatives at 25, winning the seat of Blaxland in 1969...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 January 1944
CountryAustralia
wall victory fields
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, Victory, and walked off the field.
strong nice being-nice
Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong
australia asia security
You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.
men three politician
Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
running witty clever
He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up
morning silly names
Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
taken mean views
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.
thinking two imagination
I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
running littles pay
While frenetic activity, in the end suiting journos; running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off
political life-is modern
The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
country ambition migration
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.
party two together
The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together
australia would-be unthinkable
Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable . . . unimaginable . . . unspeakable.
university-degrees class greed
If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.