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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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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I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.
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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 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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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.