John Howard Quotes
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There will, in my view, come a time when there has to be some kind of political denouement inside China, because the newly enriched generation might put up with being told what to do by their rulers - but their children, who will take prosperity for granted, will not.
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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.
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Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.
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The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...
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I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.
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I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.
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Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.
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I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.
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I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.
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There's no way that a GST will ever be part of our policy... never ever, it's dead it was killed by the voters in the last election.
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I have had the view that cutting wages is not the path to prosperity, and one of the great myths propagated about my attitude to industrial relations is that I believe in lower wages. I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.
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I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.
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In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.
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It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.
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I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.
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It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.