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Knows Quotes by Bob Hawke

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I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.

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Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

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When George Bush Senior [George HW Bush] was getting his alliance together to go into Iraq - to kick the Iraqis out…

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I don't know who described Mahathir [bin Mohamad] as a pillar of the Commonwealth, but they don't know what they're talking about.

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

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

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[Malcolm Fraser] went straight from Melbourne Grammar to Oxford. And he would have been a very lonely person, and I think he…

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Don't talk to me about what's happened since [Nelson] Mandela! His successor was absolutely hopeless - "no such thing as AIDS" -…

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

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While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the…

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We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there…

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I told [ David Lange] he was crazy, because you can't have an alliance relationship if you refuse access to their ships. And the…

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I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

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

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We are building together a nation in which there are no second-class Australians.

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I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.

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I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be on his…

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I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.

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George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way.

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I felt completely ready to become prime minister. I came to office better equipped, in terms of knowledge of economics and of the Australian…

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