Skip to content

Approach Quote by Bob Hawke

“I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.” quote by Bob Hawke — Download Open image

“I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Approach Economic Economics Enemy Government Management Politics Stupid Thinking Unions

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.

Image

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…

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

Explore all 86 Bob Hawke quotes

More Approach quotes

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Image

I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally…

Image

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave…

Image

We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our…

Image

One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,…

Image

Ideal for the child and society in the best of times, Rudolf Steiner's brilliant process of education is critically needed and profoundly relevant now…

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Image

I don't have any particular method, my approach is very simple. I try to understand the emotional graph of the character.

Image

“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their…

Image

Everything, every part that you approach has to be somehow rooted in yourself. You have to somehow root everything so that it's not just…

Image

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

Image

The whole secret to mastering the game of golf - and this applies to the beginner as well as the pro - is to…

Image

The essence of Christianity...is an ever-new encounter with... the God who speaks to us, who approaches us and who befriends us!

Pope Benedict XVI

Image

Browse all 3,865 Approach quotes