Nick Xenophon Quotes

Australia, Politician
January 29, 1959

Nicholas Xenophon is an Australian politician who was a Senator for South Australia from 2008 to 2017. He was the leader of two political parties: Nick Xenophon Team federally, and Nick Xenophon's SA-BEST in South Australia. In October 2017, Xenophon resigned from the Australian Senate to contest a seat in the House of Assembly at the 2018 South Australian state election. From 1997 to 2007, he was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council, serving as an independent on a No Pokies policy platform. When the Nick Xenophon Team changed its name to Centre Alliance, Xenophon himself ceased to be directly involved with the party.

I don't know if I am a very good politician. I'm not a good hater.

Nick Xenophon
- Politician
- Hater
In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.

Nick Xenophon
- Law
- Limits
- Australia

If you run for election with a particular agenda about saving jobs, about strengthening manufacturing and farming jobs, about tackling predatory gambling and making governments accountable, if there's an opportunity to achieve that agenda with either side of politics, particularly if you come from the political centre, then it's an opportunity you should take up.

Nick Xenophon
I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who don't make the headlines. These are people who have felt that their sense - their grief, their sense of injustice has been compounded by a system that just doesn't work, that just doesn't listen to victims, that effectively disempowers them all too often.

Nick Xenophon
- People
- Justice
- Speak
I'm not against free trade but I'm against free trade deals that are negotiated badly, that actually compromise jobs, manufacturing jobs, compromise the national interest.

Nick Xenophon
- Jobs
- Interest
- Deals
That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

Nick Xenophon
- Political
- Sides
- Centre