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
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If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.
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The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.
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Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.
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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.
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I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?
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You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.
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I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the top off and swallow it down.' You know, confidence has to be earned.