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
country thinking australia
I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.
thinking world rise-of-china
I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.
thinking people reform
I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms. They mightn't like them but they'll accept them. But reforms have to be presented in a digestible format.
thinking guy police
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.
thinking two imagination
I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
cabinet popeye spinach swallow
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.
architecture build chance life native perhaps piece
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.
believed burning government mr
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.
kevin lasts firsts
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.
want economic majors
Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.
government australia done
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.