John Howard Quotes
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There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.
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I hate guns.
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The goal of Australian foreign policy should be to promote the maximum harmony between the U.S. and China.
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I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life...
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You can't fatten the pig on market day.
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We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.
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We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
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I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.
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I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.
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I think history will judge him very harshly for not having seized the opportunity in the year 2000 to embrace the offer that was very courageously made by the then Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barack, which involved the Israelis agreeing to 90 per cent of what the Palestinians had wanted.
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I think I'm seen as trustworthy. I'm seen as having determination and persistence, and I'm seen as having a capacity to reach achievable answers to difficult issues.
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I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.
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On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.
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I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.
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Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.
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I grew up in a strong family; we had strong family bonds.
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Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
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A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.
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I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodation to carve up the Asia-Pacific region - that is an arrogant proposition and deeply insulting to other countries in the region, including Japan and potentially also India and Indonesia.
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If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for Barack Obama but also for the Democrats.
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This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.
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We will decide who comes to our country.
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Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.
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In the end, young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.