If you can't imagine it, you sure as hell are never going to see it. Paul Keating More Quotes by Paul Keating More Quotes From Paul Keating Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian. Paul Keating extraordinaryaustralianachieve The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism. Paul Keating modernpoliticallife-is The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out. Paul Keating partymorningpeople 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. Paul Keating regionsasiaaustralia Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies. Paul Keating politicianthreemen If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person at some stage was dispossessed of it. Paul Keating titlesblockland No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future. Paul Keating geographychoiceslying When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field. Paul Keating wallvictoryfields 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. Paul Keating eventsworldthinking I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format. Paul Keating reformpeoplethinking The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, in a new way, armed with our own self-regard, our own confidence and fully appreciating our own uniqueness. All other roads will lead us into the shadow of great powers. Paul Keating australiaselfideas The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. Paul Keating passionbeliefprocess 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. Paul Keating australia-daygovernmenttwo 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. Paul Keating opponentsaustraliamay The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished. Paul Keating finishedshows 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. Paul Keating pridehumilitybusiness 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. Paul Keating chinesemilitaryfriendly 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. Paul Keating kevinlastsfirsts One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know. Paul Keating combattirestills Think of one structural change in 11 years he made, other than being just doling out money in the annual Budget? And don't say the GST because Howard did that and it wasn't a structural change anyway, just a change in the tax system. This is a low flying person. Paul Keating flyingpersonslows
