Kevin Rudd Quotes

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• I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But…
• Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.
• Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because…
• Mr Howard's problem is for so long he's been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country as part of…
• We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies…
• I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for the country's future…
• Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the…
• The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so…
• Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.
• A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter…
• For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural…
• John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough
• Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls
• Would you like to work at home and earn $150 per hour with data entry?
• Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in…
• John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.
• My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.
• Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.
• The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding…
• By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

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