--- title: "13 Said Quotes By Bob Hawke" description: "13 Said quotes by Bob Hawke. Plus more from Bob Hawke and more Said sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/234/bob-hawke-7891_appreciative_i-rang-brian-mulroney-up-i-said-what-s-t_2375863.jpg" --- > [ I rang Brian \[Mulroney\] up. I said, "What's this bloody nonsense. You've got a wheat trade with Iraq and you won't come… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-rang-brian-mulroney-up-i-said-what-s-this-bloody-nonsense-you-ve/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/234/bob-hawke-7891_appreciative_i-rang-brian-mulroney-up-i-said-what-s-t_2375863.jpg) > [I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-wrote-a-letter-to-our-australian-newspaper-about-three-weeks-before/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2c/bob-hawke-7891_absurdity_i-wrote-a-letter-to-our-australian-newsp_337217.jpg) > [I said to my people, "We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them." And I sent senior…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-said-to-my-people-we-re-knocking-apartheid-off-but-we-ve-got-to-be/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae5/bob-hawke-7891_apartheid_i-said-to-my-people-we-re-knocking-apart_2727718.jpg) > [ We \[ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi\] went to the meeting in Canada \[the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM\] and I said to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/we-with-brian-mulroney-and-rajiv-gandhi-went-to-the-meeting-in-canada/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66c/bob-hawke-7891_apartheid_we-with-brian-mulroney-and-rajiv-gandhi_109260.jpg) > [I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he... He made a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-had-a-good-personal-relationship-with-lee-kuan-yew-and-i-used-him/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fd/bob-hawke-7891_asia_i-had-a-good-personal-relationship-with_2000820.jpg) > [It was the South African Government that has introduced politics into sport by decreeing politically that no non-white person will represent their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/it-was-the-south-african-government-that-has-introduced-politics-into/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/547/bob-hawke-7891_answers_it-was-the-south-african-government-that_2720781.jpg) > [It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/it-had-things-that-it-could-do-and-which-i-thought-were-worthwhile/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffc/bob-hawke-7891_commonwealth_it-had-things-that-it-could-do-and-which_1197674.jpg) > [I just loved him and he loved me... He was a most humble man, the most decent man I've ever met in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-just-loved-him-and-he-loved-me-he-was-a-most-humble-man-the-most/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78d/bob-hawke-7891_believe_i-just-loved-him-and-he-loved-me-he-was_2739470.jpg) > [I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-rang-my-friend-jim-wolfensohn-who-was-then-running-a-private/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/bob-hawke-7891_apartheid_i-rang-my-friend-jim-wolfensohn-who-was_1303829.jpg) > [ When George Bush Senior \[George HW Bush\] was getting his alliance together to go into Iraq - to kick the Iraqis out… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/when-george-bush-senior-george-hw-bush-was-getting-his-alliance/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ce/bob-hawke-7891_alliances_when-george-bush-senior-george-hw-bush-w_980032.jpg) > [ \[ Rajiv Gandhi\] was very reflective and rueful and regretful about the fact that his children's education...He wanted them to get educated… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/rajiv-gandhi-was-very-reflective-and-rueful-and-regretful-about-the/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d3/bob-hawke-7891_australia_rajiv-gandhi-was-very-reflective-and-rue_838896.jpg) > [ We were great mates \[with Rajiv Gandhi\]: very, very, very close friends. In fact, on my visit to India as Prime Minister,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/we-were-great-mates-with-rajiv-gandhi-very-very-very-close-friends-in/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfc/bob-hawke-7891_aspect_we-were-great-mates-with-rajiv-gandhi-ve_2297295.jpg) > [I was used on a number of occasions by the United States and China as a conduit. For instance, I was up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-was-used-on-a-number-of-occasions-by-the-united-states-and-china-as/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/bob-hawke-7891_bits_i-was-used-on-a-number-of-occasions-by-t_537392.jpg) ## Other authors on Said ## More by 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. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/brian-mulroney-myself-and-rajiv-gandhi-i-think-that-was-the-real-core/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/while-society-cannot-provide-employment-for-its-members-the/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) > [ We \[ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi\] went to the meeting in Canada \[the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM\] and I said to them there… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/we-with-brian-mulroney-and-rajiv-gandhi-went-to-the-meeting-in-canada/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) > [ I told \[ David Lange\] he was crazy, because you can't have an alliance relationship if you refuse access to their ships. And the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-told-david-lange-he-was-crazy-because-you-can-t-have-an-alliance/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) > [I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-find-a-fence-a-very-uncomfortable-place-to-squat-my-bottom/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/there-is-a-reciprocal-respect-for-elizabeth-ii-for-her-interest-in/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) > [We are building together a nation in which there are no second-class Australians.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/we-are-building-together-a-nation-in-which-there-are-no-second-class/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) > [I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-had-no-time-for-indira-gandhi-she-was-too-much-in-the-russian-camp/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) > [I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be on his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-wrote-a-letter-to-our-australian-newspaper-about-three-weeks-before/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) > [I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-can-t-speak-with-authority-about-emeka-anyaoku-i-just-didn-t-know/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) > [ George Bush Junior \[George W Bush\] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/george-bush-junior-george-w-bush-was-a-religious-fanatic-and-tony/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) > [I felt completely ready to become prime minister. I came to office better equipped, in terms of knowledge of economics and of the Australian…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-felt-completely-ready-to-become-prime-minister-i-came-to-office/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) > [I went along with it, and wanted to appoint a significant figure in Malcolm Fraser. I didn't have high hopes that they'd be able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-went-along-with-it-and-wanted-to-appoint-a-significant-figure-in/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/one-of-the-features-of-the-commonwealth-heads-of-government-meetings/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) > [The greatest stain upon this great Australian nation's character, without any question, is the great gaps that exist between our Aboriginal brothers and sisters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/the-greatest-stain-upon-this-great-australian-nation-s-character/) [Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bob-hawke/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/said/bob-hawke/#itemlist", "name": "13 Said Quotes By Bob Hawke", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I rang Brian [Mulroney] up. I said, \"What's this bloody nonsense. You've got a wheat trade with Iraq and you won't come aboard?\" I said, \"We've got a bloody big wheat trade too, so get your priorities right.\" And he said, \"Okay, Bob. I'll come.\" I rang George and he was very appreciative.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hawke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-rang-brian-mulroney-up-i-said-what-s-this-bloody-nonsense-you-ve/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/234/bob-hawke-7891_appreciative_i-rang-brian-mulroney-up-i-said-what-s-t_2375863.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/234/bob-hawke-7891_appreciative_i-rang-brian-mulroney-up-i-said-what-s-t_2375863.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/234/bob-hawke-7891_appreciative_i-rang-brian-mulroney-up-i-said-what-s-t_2375863.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I rang Brian [Mulroney] up. I said, \"What's this bloody nonsense. You've got a wheat trade with Iraq and you…” — Bob Hawke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, \"Osama bin Laden must be on his knees morning and night praying to Allah that the Americans will invade.\" And, of course, he was, because nothing more advanced his cause - the cause of terrorism - than the invasion of Iraq. It was an absurdity.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hawke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-wrote-a-letter-to-our-australian-newspaper-about-three-weeks-before/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2c/bob-hawke-7891_absurdity_i-wrote-a-letter-to-our-australian-newsp_337217.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2c/bob-hawke-7891_absurdity_i-wrote-a-letter-to-our-australian-newsp_337217.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f2c/bob-hawke-7891_absurdity_i-wrote-a-letter-to-our-australian-newsp_337217.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, \"Osama bin…” — Bob Hawke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I said to my people, \"We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them.\" And I sent senior people over there to assist the incoming South African regime to go about the economic plan.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hawke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-said-to-my-people-we-re-knocking-apartheid-off-but-we-ve-got-to-be/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae5/bob-hawke-7891_apartheid_i-said-to-my-people-we-re-knocking-apart_2727718.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae5/bob-hawke-7891_apartheid_i-said-to-my-people-we-re-knocking-apart_2727718.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae5/bob-hawke-7891_apartheid_i-said-to-my-people-we-re-knocking-apart_2727718.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I said to my people, \"We're knocking apartheid off but we've got to be prepared to assist them.\" And I sent…” — Bob Hawke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there that sanctions weren't working; they were just being busted. And it did seem to me that one way that we could bring the apartheid regime down would be if we did mount an effective investment sanction.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hawke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/we-with-brian-mulroney-and-rajiv-gandhi-went-to-the-meeting-in-canada/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66c/bob-hawke-7891_apartheid_we-with-brian-mulroney-and-rajiv-gandhi_109260.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66c/bob-hawke-7891_apartheid_we-with-brian-mulroney-and-rajiv-gandhi_109260.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66c/bob-hawke-7891_apartheid_we-with-brian-mulroney-and-rajiv-gandhi_109260.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I…” — Bob Hawke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he... He made a statement in 1980, and he said in that statement that, \"If Australia keeps going the way it is, it will finish up the poor, white trash of Asia.\" And he was right, because we were just going backwards.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hawke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-had-a-good-personal-relationship-with-lee-kuan-yew-and-i-used-him/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fd/bob-hawke-7891_asia_i-had-a-good-personal-relationship-with_2000820.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fd/bob-hawke-7891_asia_i-had-a-good-personal-relationship-with_2000820.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fd/bob-hawke-7891_asia_i-had-a-good-personal-relationship-with_2000820.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he... He made a…” — Bob Hawke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 6, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It was the South African Government that has introduced politics into sport by decreeing politically that no non-white person will represent their country. They introduced politics into sport.\" And Don [Bradman] was a very shrewd old bloke, and he looked at me for about thirty seconds and then he said, \"Bob, I've got no answer to that.\" And that was it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hawke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/it-was-the-south-african-government-that-has-introduced-politics-into/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/547/bob-hawke-7891_answers_it-was-the-south-african-government-that_2720781.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/547/bob-hawke-7891_answers_it-was-the-south-african-government-that_2720781.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/547/bob-hawke-7891_answers_it-was-the-south-african-government-that_2720781.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It was the South African Government that has introduced politics into sport by decreeing politically that no…” — Bob Hawke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 7, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hawke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/it-had-things-that-it-could-do-and-which-i-thought-were-worthwhile/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffc/bob-hawke-7891_commonwealth_it-had-things-that-it-could-do-and-which_1197674.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffc/bob-hawke-7891_commonwealth_it-had-things-that-it-could-do-and-which_1197674.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ffc/bob-hawke-7891_commonwealth_it-had-things-that-it-could-do-and-which_1197674.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course…” — Bob Hawke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 8, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I just loved him and he loved me... He was a most humble man, the most decent man I've ever met in my life and he always looked for the best in people to find positives and he said something to me that always remained with me. He said if you believe in the fatherhood of God you must necessarily believe in the brotherhood of man, it follows necessarily and even though I left the church and was not religious, that truth remained with me.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hawke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-just-loved-him-and-he-loved-me-he-was-a-most-humble-man-the-most/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78d/bob-hawke-7891_believe_i-just-loved-him-and-he-loved-me-he-was_2739470.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78d/bob-hawke-7891_believe_i-just-loved-him-and-he-loved-me-he-was_2739470.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/78d/bob-hawke-7891_believe_i-just-loved-him-and-he-loved-me-he-was_2739470.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I just loved him and he loved me... He was a most humble man, the most decent man I've ever met in my life…” — Bob Hawke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 9, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, \"Come up to Vancouver\", and he did. I put my proposition to him. He said, \"I think it could work.\" I said, \"Will you help us?\" He said, \"Yes.\" So, I set aside senior people in our treasury and they worked with Wolfensohn and the investment sanctions were applied. And that's what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hawke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-rang-my-friend-jim-wolfensohn-who-was-then-running-a-private/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/bob-hawke-7891_apartheid_i-rang-my-friend-jim-wolfensohn-who-was_1303829.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/bob-hawke-7891_apartheid_i-rang-my-friend-jim-wolfensohn-who-was_1303829.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ca/bob-hawke-7891_apartheid_i-rang-my-friend-jim-wolfensohn-who-was_1303829.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, \"Come…” — Bob Hawke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 10, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "When George Bush Senior [George HW Bush] was getting his alliance together to go into Iraq - to kick the Iraqis out of Kuwait - he rang me up. I was very close to George Bush Senior; I got to know him well as Vice President to Ronald Reagan. And George rang me up and said, \"Oh, Bob,\" he said, \"I'm having trouble with Brian [Mulroney].\" He said, \"He's got a big wheat trade with Iraq, and he doesn't want to upset that.\" I said, \"You leave it with me.\"", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hawke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/when-george-bush-senior-george-hw-bush-was-getting-his-alliance/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ce/bob-hawke-7891_alliances_when-george-bush-senior-george-hw-bush-w_980032.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ce/bob-hawke-7891_alliances_when-george-bush-senior-george-hw-bush-w_980032.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8ce/bob-hawke-7891_alliances_when-george-bush-senior-george-hw-bush-w_980032.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“When George Bush Senior [George HW Bush] was getting his alliance together to go into Iraq - to kick the…” — Bob Hawke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 11, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "[ Rajiv Gandhi] was very reflective and rueful and regretful about the fact that his children's education...He wanted them to get educated outside of India, but he said to me the only place that he found where they would be safe was in Russia, and he didn't really want them to be educated there! So, I said, \"Well, send them to Australia. I'll look after them.\" And my security bloke went absolutely bloody bananas, and I said, \"We'll look after them.\" But, in the end, he didn't send them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hawke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/rajiv-gandhi-was-very-reflective-and-rueful-and-regretful-about-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d3/bob-hawke-7891_australia_rajiv-gandhi-was-very-reflective-and-rue_838896.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d3/bob-hawke-7891_australia_rajiv-gandhi-was-very-reflective-and-rue_838896.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d3/bob-hawke-7891_australia_rajiv-gandhi-was-very-reflective-and-rue_838896.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“[ Rajiv Gandhi] was very reflective and rueful and regretful about the fact that his children's…” — Bob Hawke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We were great mates [with Rajiv Gandhi]: very, very, very close friends. In fact, on my visit to India as Prime Minister, we were going to his home for dinner. There were two aspects I remember: one is him saying how he had trouble with his security people, because they insisted he wears a vest. He said it was very uncomfortable and he often took it off, but of course, in the end, it wouldn't have mattered if he'd been wearing three vests - he would have been gone.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hawke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/we-were-great-mates-with-rajiv-gandhi-very-very-very-close-friends-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfc/bob-hawke-7891_aspect_we-were-great-mates-with-rajiv-gandhi-ve_2297295.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfc/bob-hawke-7891_aspect_we-were-great-mates-with-rajiv-gandhi-ve_2297295.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfc/bob-hawke-7891_aspect_we-were-great-mates-with-rajiv-gandhi-ve_2297295.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We were great mates [with Rajiv Gandhi]: very, very, very close friends. In fact, on my visit to India as…” — Bob Hawke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 13, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I was used on a number of occasions by the United States and China as a conduit. For instance, I was up there talking with the Chinese leadership and they said to me that they were a bit concerned that the Americans had a misunderstanding about their relationship with the Soviets. There was some suggestion that there was a rapprochement developing between China and the Soviets, but nothing could have been further from the truth.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Bob Hawke" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bob-hawke/i-was-used-on-a-number-of-occasions-by-the-united-states-and-china-as/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/bob-hawke-7891_bits_i-was-used-on-a-number-of-occasions-by-t_537392.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/bob-hawke-7891_bits_i-was-used-on-a-number-of-occasions-by-t_537392.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c1f/bob-hawke-7891_bits_i-was-used-on-a-number-of-occasions-by-t_537392.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I was used on a number of occasions by the United States and China as a conduit. For instance, I was up…” — Bob Hawke", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/said/bob-hawke/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/said/bob-hawke/", "name": "Said Quotes by Bob Hawke", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/said/bob-hawke/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/234/bob-hawke-7891_appreciative_i-rang-brian-mulroney-up-i-said-what-s-t_2375863.jpg" }, "description": "13 Said quotes by Bob Hawke. Plus more from Bob Hawke and more Said sayings from other authors.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/said/bob-hawke/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/said/bob-hawke/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Said", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/said/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 5, "name": "Bob Hawke", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/said/bob-hawke/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```