Paul Keating

Good economics is good politics.

— Paul Keating

One of the inevitable aspects of debates about euthanasia is the reluctance on the part of advocates to confront the essence of…

— Paul Keating

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this…

— Paul Keating

I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

— Paul Keating

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about…

— Paul Keating

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the disasters. The alcohol. We committed the murders.…

— Paul Keating

The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia. Notwithstanding a controversial prime ministership, in later years he harboured one…

— Paul Keating

One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are…

— Paul Keating

For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's…

— Paul Keating

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

— Paul Keating

The lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have…

— Paul Keating

Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off.

— Paul Keating

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

— Paul Keating

The only reward in a public life is public progress. You stand back and say, 'What did I get out of it?'…

— Paul Keating

Row with Malaysia Prime Minister

— Paul Keating

If you are sitting on the title of any block of land in New South Wales you can bet an Aboriginal person…

— Paul Keating

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

— Paul Keating

No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them.…

— Paul Keating

A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we…

— Paul Keating

Geoffrey Tozer's death is a national tragedy. For the Australian arts and Australian music, losing Tozer is like Canada having lost Glenn…

— Paul Keating

The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.

— Paul Keating

I used to say in the cabinet room, 'confidence is not like a can of Popeye spinach - you can't take the…

— Paul Keating

Countries get one chance in history of putting into place a savings retirement scheme on the scale of the Australian superannuation system.

— Paul Keating

John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a…

— Paul Keating

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for…

— Paul Keating