Bob Hawke Quotes
- The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong…
- 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 unemployed.…
- In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more…
- The world will not wait for us.
- 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…
- Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.
- I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.
- The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.
- By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.
- I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.
- My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater…
- There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have…
- Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.
- Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources…
- We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.