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Paul Keating
Paul Keating
Australian Politician
Born: Jan 18, 1944
Always Australian First Great World You
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Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage. Paul Keating
Leadership Courage Think Imagination About Main Well Always Been Things Two
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. Paul Keating
You Confidence Down Earned Top Say Spinach Take Cabinet Like Know Off Swallow Room Used Popeye
If you can't imagine it, you sure as hell are never going to see it. Paul Keating
You Hell See Never Sure Going Imagine
Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies. Paul Keating
Men Three Politicians Come Straight
What the Anzac legend did do, by the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, was reinforce our own cultural notions of independence, mateship, and ingenuity. Of resilience and courage in adversity. Paul Keating
Adversity Courage Independence Sacrifice Legend Own Our Troops Cultural Did Bravery Ingenuity Notions Reinforce Resilience
The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present. Paul Keating
Future Leadership Responsibility Taking Trying Essence Essentially Interpret Present
At its best, Aboriginal art has been effective in translating an entire culture and the understanding of an entire continent. Indeed, the more we interpret Australia through Aboriginal eyes, through the experience of their long and epic story, the more we allow ourselves to understand the land we share. Paul Keating
Art Best Eyes Culture Experience Long Understanding Indeed Ourselves Has-Been Aboriginal Entire More Through Allow Share Understand Continent Been Effective Australia Story Epic Land Translating Interpret
In the end, rational policy is always good. Paul Keating
Good Rational Policy Always End In The End
I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know? Paul Keating
Government You Political Guy Know Safe Always Political Capital Up Being Burning Capital Believed
What we have to do is make our way in Asia ourselves with an independent foreign policy. Our future is basically in the region around us in South East Asia. Paul Keating
Future Our Way Independent East Ourselves East Asia Make Policy Around Foreign Foreign Policy South Region Asia Us Basically
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration, the Second World War, which divided the continent until the end of the century. Paul Keating
War Heart World First Destroyed Only Civilisation Divided Empires Until First World First World War Continent Led End Aftermath Which Century European Second World War Second World War
Geoffrey Tozer's death is a national tragedy. For the Australian arts and Australian music, losing Tozer is like Canada having lost Glenn Gould, or France, Ginette Neveu. It is a massive cultural loss. The kind of loss people felt when Germany lost Dresden. Paul Keating
Death Music People Losing National Lost France Kind Having Glenn Like Massive Felt Geoffrey Loss Cultural Tragedy Australian Germany Canada Arts
The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia. Notwithstanding a controversial prime ministership, in later years he harboured one abiding and important idea about Australia - its need and its right to be a strategically independent country. Paul Keating
Death Great Country Important Later Independent Abide About He Idea Prime Malcolm Years Loss Australia Controversial Notwithstanding Strategically Right Need
As prime minister, the pastoral lease question was a very vexing and torrid one for me. Paul Keating
Me Minister Prime Prime Minister Lease Question Very Vexing
My claim has always been that defeatism pervaded the conservative parties in the 1930s and that it was the defining characteristic of Menzies and his first period as prime minister. Paul Keating
Conservative First Defining Claim Characteristic Minister Prime Prime Minister Parties Period Always Been His
You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia. Paul Keating
You Live Security Must Find See Around Understand Australia Psychologically Cannot Region Asia
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. Paul Keating
Good You Pride Enough Humility Risking Through Good Thing Pushing Takes Die Craft Hard Thing
One of the inevitable aspects of debates about euthanasia is the reluctance on the part of advocates to confront the essence of what they propose. Paul Keating
Inevitable About Reluctance Propose Part Advocate Debates Essence Confront Aspects Euthanasia
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. Paul Keating
Great Passion Society Changes Rather Civilisation Rational Wrought Been Than Process Held Deduction Beliefs Deeply
What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists. Paul Keating
War World Power First Before Distinguished Massive First World First World War Wars World War
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. Paul Keating
People Will Think Respond Like Accept Proved Australian Very Reforms Format Them Conscientious Necessary Presented
One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know. Paul Keating
You Punch Throw Combat Know Although Still Tires
I have long believed, especially after the unprovoked Western attack on Iraq and the ransacking of the Gaddafi regime in Libya, that North Korea would not desist from the full development of its nuclear weapons program, despite threats and sanctions from the West and even from China. Paul Keating
Long Despite Libya Would Weapons Threats Unprovoked Attack Development Korea West Iraq Western North North Korea Gaddafi After Regime China Sanctions Full Even Believed Nuclear Nuclear Weapons Program
When we were actually in the Keating reform era, the Business Council was of no help. Paul Keating
Business Council Era Were Reform Help Actually
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state destinies overlaid by notions of cultural superiority peppered with racism. Paul Keating
War Racism World First Virtue Complex Destinies Superiority Quagmire Devoid First World First World War Cultural Any Notions European World War
The more we view the country through the prism of Aboriginality, the more likely we are to get the angle right. Paul Keating
Country Angle More Through Likely Prism Get View Right
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