Australian Quote by Kevin Rudd

Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals,…

— Kevin Rudd

Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.

— Kevin Rudd

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence.…

— Kevin Rudd

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…

— Kevin Rudd

I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide.…

— Kevin Rudd

The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby…

— Kevin Rudd

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest…

— Kevin Rudd

John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.

— Kevin Rudd

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger…

— Kevin Rudd

2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we…

— Kevin Rudd

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the…

— Kevin Rudd

There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking…

— Kevin Rudd