Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.
From Paul Keating
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 wasn't going to give those up.
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?
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.
The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.
Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.
The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.
The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
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