91 Quotes by Paul Keating

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?

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

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

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

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

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.

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.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

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.