John Howard
John Howard
John Winston Howard, OM, AC, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. Only Sir Robert Menzies has served in the position longer...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth26 July 1939
CountryAustralia
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thinking grandfather doe
A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.
sports country thinking
Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.
taken blow thinking
I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.
thinking average australia-day
I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.
military thinking should-have
I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.
country destiny thinking
I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.
capacity hope
I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.
fairly
I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.
game tried
We tried to make a game that was really fun, that really entertained us for the years we were working on it.
enriched inside might newly prosperity rulers time
There will, in my view, come a time when there has to be some kind of political denouement inside China, because the newly enriched generation might put up with being told what to do by their rulers - but their children, who will take prosperity for granted, will not.
australian pick
They should pick up the tab, not the Australian taxpayer.
china closer traditions
Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.
consistent democrats economic government lower mainstream reform republican smaller states taxes united
On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.
family grew
I grew up in a strong family; we had strong family bonds.