I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the top off and swallow it down.' You know, confidence has to be earned. — 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 Image
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 Image
I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know? — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
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 Image
Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off. — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
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 Image
