Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
[Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Geoffrey Tozer's death is a national tragedy. For the Australian arts and Australian music, losing Tozer is like Canada having lost Glenn… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
I think the Australian people are very conscientious. During the 1980s and 1990s we proved they will respond conscientiously to necessary reforms.… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
One of the inevitable aspects of debates about euthanasia is the reluctance on the part of advocates to confront the essence of what they… — Paul Keating Copy Share
I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be… — Paul Keating Copy Share
I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know? — Paul Keating Copy Share
You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic.… — Paul Keating Copy Share
We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took… — Paul Keating Copy Share
The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia. Notwithstanding a controversial prime ministership, in later years he harboured one abiding and… — Paul Keating Copy Share
One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards… — Paul Keating Copy Share
For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for… — Paul Keating Copy Share
The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike… — Paul Keating Copy Share
Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off. — Paul Keating Copy Share
The only reward in a public life is public progress. You stand back and say, 'What did I get out of it?' You look… — Paul Keating Copy Share
![“[Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the…” quote by Paul Keating](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/295/paul-keating-8731_australian_australian-reserve-bank-governor-macfarl_2047355.png)
