95 Quotes by John Howard

You can’t fatten the pig on market day.

People who say they’re too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.

I’m all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people’s liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life...

There is a very special place in the Australian psyche for sport. It is one of the pillars of the Australian way of life. You don’t really understand what makes the Australian nation tick unless you understand the great affection Australians have for sport.

It’s too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

I’m not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government’s state of mind at the time I made that.

It’s beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

I thank all of those who weren’t born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.