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Paul Keating quotes: When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

Paul Keating quotes: Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

Paul Keating quotes: Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

Paul Keating quotes: Good economics is good politics.

Good economics is good politics.

Paul Keating quotes: In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

Paul Keating quotes: In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.

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

Paul Keating quotes: Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

Paul Keating quotes: The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction.

Paul Keating quotes: Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

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

Paul Keating quotes: If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

Paul Keating quotes: The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

Paul Keating quotes: You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

Paul Keating quotes: One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

Paul Keating quotes: The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

Paul Keating quotes: I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

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

Paul Keating quotes: This is a low flying person

This is a low flying person

Paul Keating quotes: I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

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

Paul Keating quotes: The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

Paul Keating quotes: In the end, rational policy is always good.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

Paul Keating quotes: Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable ... unimaginable ... unspeakable.

Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable ... unimaginable ... unspeakable.

Paul Keating quotes: The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together

Paul Keating quotes: Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Paul Keating quotes: The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.

The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.

Paul Keating quotes: While frenetic activity, in the end suiting journos; running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off

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

Paul Keating quotes: He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

Paul Keating quotes: If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

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

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

Paul Keating quotes: Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?

Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?