Paul Keating
Paul Keating
Paul John Keatingis an Australian politician who was the 24th Prime Minister of Australia and the Leader of the Labor Party from 1991 to 1996. Born in a working-class Sydney suburb and having left school at 15, Keating was first elected to the House of Representatives at 25, winning the seat of Blaxland in 1969...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth18 January 1944
CountryAustralia
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I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the top off and swallow it down.' You know, confidence has to be earned.
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You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.
came walked
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.
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I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?
courage imagination leadership
Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
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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.
leadership keys imagination
In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
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Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.
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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.
tire combat stills
One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.
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We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. 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 these things being done to us.
ends rational policy
In the end, rational policy is always good.
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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.
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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.