I don't know who described Mahathir [bin Mohamad] as a…

One other thing: at the meeting in Canada, [there was] the coup in Fiji. This comes to an important part of the Commonwealth: the…

— Bob Hawke

I assumed the leadership within the Commonwealth for the fight against apartheid. I was very much assisted by Brian Mulroney, the Prime Minister of…

— Bob Hawke

I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It's very easy…

— Bob Hawke

[ Elizabeth II] has immersed herself, in the sense [that] she can speak intelligently about any and all members of the Commonwealth and she…

— Bob Hawke

It was Indira Gandhi who very much lined up with the Russians. And she was, you know, within the Commonwealth, basically one out on…

— Bob Hawke

She [ Elizabeth II] is, you know, "Do-what-you're-told, Lady". But in the Commonwealth, she is much more than just a figurehead.

— Bob Hawke

The concept there was that the small number of developed countries within the Commonwealth should provide assistance. This was not just financial but personal,…

— Bob Hawke

It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said,…

— Bob Hawke

It [also] lives on its history, now, to some extent: its achievements [ of the Commonwealth] in Rhodesia and South Africa, which were enormous.…

— Bob Hawke

One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with each of…

— Bob Hawke

There is a reciprocal respect for [ Elizabeth II], for her interest in the Commonwealth. The members of the Commonwealth recognise that here is…

— Bob Hawke

Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon.

— Bob Hawke

Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency does not…

— Forrest Church

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

— Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we…

— Wendell Berry