Paul Keating Quotes

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, Hard, Humility

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.
Paul Keating

Country, Welcome, Sign

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

Accept, Necessary, Respond

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.
Paul Keating

Great, Positive, History

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.
Paul Keating

Try, Advantage, Australian

I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.
Paul Keating

Great, Mean, Everybody

In the end, rational policy is always good.
Paul Keating

Good, End, Policy

Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.
Paul Keating

Family, American, Nobody

The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.
Paul Keating

Show, Finished, Atlantic

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, Society, Passion

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
Paul Keating

Life, Great, Political

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.
Paul Keating

Good, United, Asia

Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?
Paul Keating

Best, May, Country

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
Paul Keating

Leadership, Courage, Two

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.
Paul Keating

Down, Victory, Off

You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.
Paul Keating

Friendly, Keep, Against

You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.
Paul Keating

Government, Two, Before

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

Live, Understand, Find

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Politician

Born: January 18, 1944

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