Paul Keating Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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 great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.”

“The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.”

“I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.”

“In the end, rational policy is always good.”

“One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.”

“I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?”

“Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.”

“Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.”

“The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.”