Quotes by Paul Keating

“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.”

“If one takes pride in ones craft, you wont let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.”

“He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up”

“I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.”

“These are the same old fogies who doffed their lids and tugged the forelock to the British establishment [of Aussie Tory supporters of Britain]”

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasnt going to give those up.

Well, I think that - I think leaderships always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

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.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.