Quotes by Simon Crean

“Howard has to explain his involvement in this sordid affair. John Howard can no longer step back and say he wasnt involved.”

“Your presence here today reminds us that the partnership between our two great nations is broad -- its deep, its many sided, its long-standing and, in its fundamentals, it is bipartisan.”

“I think that the real issue is not just what they did then, but who else has been spied on and what does John Howard know about these circumstances,”

“The prime minister has to make an apology because this attack on Justice Kirby was done with the knowledge of the prime minister.”

“He then went on and fueled the issue in the House of Representatives based on information Heffernan had written to the prime minister about but which he hadnt even alleged in the Senate,”

“He then went on and fueled the issue in the House of Representatives based on information Heffernan had written to the prime minister about but which he hadnt even alleged in the Senate.”

“Loyalty and respect for contribution do matter. They are principles I seek to uphold.”