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
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'.
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.
indicate possible stage
I won't indicate at this stage that I'm sympathetic to this or that possible change.
answers capacity determination seen
I think I'm seen as trustworthy. I'm seen as having determination and persistence, and I'm seen as having a capacity to reach achievable answers to difficult issues.
alter mandatory plain policy relation
We'll cooperate, but I want to make it plain that we're not going to alter our policy in relation to mandatory detention.
additional circumstance dangerous sought unusual
We live in unusual circumstances. In other circumstances I would never have sought these additional powers. But we do live in very dangerous and different and threatening circumstances.
credible helped huge incidents learn majority people reasons solely targeted type users wanting
If anything, it's helped in implementing this solution. We've had no incidents of that kind. I think that the huge majority of users come in here for credible reasons wanting to learn or do some type of research. This is targeted solely on people who want to come and do something other than research.
assets military readily
If any military assets are needed, they will be readily available.