33 Quotes by Peter Costello

In the Year 2525, if man is still alive...

But in the end the decision was mine and I made it.

I can't understand how clubs would allow it. They might say, 'well it's a legal drug and there is nothing wrong with taking it,' but it sends a bad example when you (take) pills like that.

The FIRB could not come to an agreed position and presented two alternatives, ... with one alternative prohibiting the offer and the other approving it but with conditions.

You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on a lot of things you did do and I must say, when I read some of these things I wonder where the journalists get them from. They generally speak to somebody who's spoken to somebody who was down the back of a pub who heard the barman say, and gradually finds its way into magazines or articles but no, that's not the case.

As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!

Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.

You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done, because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got to do it.

I think Australians are rightly suspicious of people who will try and use religion for another end. I don't think that's right and I don't think it should be done, but I think it should inform values, and it does.