John Howard quotes - page 2

I think I'm seen as trustworthy. I'm seen as having determination and persistence, and I'm seen as having a capacity to reach achievable answers to difficult issues. (John Howard)
Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China. View quote
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We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans. View quote
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I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty. View quote
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This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief. View quote
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I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive. View quote
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It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia. View quote
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I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that. View quote
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In a sense, it's always a sombre moment in a country where you ask the people who have done the right thing to put up with inconvenience because a limited number of people have done the wrong thing, but that is the nature of a democratic society. View quote
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Part of the job of a Prime Minister in these contemporary times is, whilst enthusiastically embracing change and globalisation, he or she must also embrace what is secure - what people see as 'home' I suppose. I want to provide Australians with this security as we embrace, as we must and will, a new and vastly different future. View quote
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In the years that have gone by there's been the constant claim that we went to war based on a lie... There was no lie. There were errors in intelligence, but there was no lie. (John Howard)
Australia wins respect in the world when we display who we are and not what self-appointed cultural dieticians would want us to become. Multiculturalism is not our national cement. Rather it is the Australian achievement, which has many components. View quote
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