List of Paul Keating Quotes

Nobody Wants To Have In Their Cv In The Upper Echelons Of The American Economic Family That They Nationalised Major Banks.

The United States Being In Asia Is Unambiguously A Good Thing For The Region.

Well, Australians Should Speak For The National Interests Of Australia, And Whatever Role Former Australian Prime Ministers May Have, One Of The Things You Do Is Speak Frankly About The Country As You See The Country's Best Interests, You Know?

The G7, Just A European Centric Show, An Atlantic Show, Is Fundamentally Finished.

You Know, In The Wikileaks Cables, The Chinese Discovered That Kevin Rudd Was Urging The Americans To Keep The Military Option Open Against Them. This Is Hardly A Friendly Gesture.

You See, Before I Became Prime Minister, The Australian Prime Minister Only Attended Ever Two Meetings In The World: The British Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting And The South Pacific Forum.

In The End It's The Big Picture Which Changes Nations And Whatever Our Opponents May Say, Australia's Changed Inexorably For Good, For The Better.

I Think The Rise Of China Is One Of The Great Events Of All Economic And Human History, And I Think This Will Be Overwhelmingly A Positive Thing For The Region And The World.

I Try To Use The Australian Idiom To Its Maximum Advantage.

In The End, Rational Policy Is Always Good.

Well, Frenetic Activity In The End Suiting Journos, Running At The Behest Of Little Press Secretaries Does Not Pay Off.

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.