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

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If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

Paul Keating

university-degrees greed class

We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct assault on them through reduced wages and conditions and job security.

Paul Keating

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He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

Paul Keating

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I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Paul Keating

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We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.

Paul Keating

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Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

Paul Keating

being-nice nice strong

If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

Paul Keating

australia government done

One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is looming on the horizon. It's not visible yet but it certainly exists there and it won't be my generation that has to deal with the fact that the world is not bountiful forever, that the ocean and the atmosphere are not free goods to be abused, that will have to feed these vast populations. That will be your generation.

Paul Keating

atmosphere ocean forever

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

Paul Keating

australia country thinking

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

Paul Keating

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The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

Paul Keating

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You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

Paul Keating

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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.

Paul Keating

space taken mean

Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?

Paul Keating

names silly morning

Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.

Paul Keating

unthinkable australia would-be

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

Paul Keating

party together two

[Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the same fellow that gave them the 15 years of good growth and high wealth that came from it?

Paul Keating

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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.

Paul Keating

migration ambition country

Good economics is good politics.

Paul Keating

economics business

John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the guy did no thinking.

Paul Keating

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