Quote #46

What we have got is a dead carcass, swinging in the breeze, but nobody will cut it down to replace him.

More from Paul Keating

  1. [Most politicians have] brains like sparrows' nests - all shit and sticks.
  2. The principle saboteur, the man with the cheap fistful of dollars.
  3. You've been in the dye pot again, Andrew.
  4. He's wound up like a thousand day clock.
  5. He, as Foreign Minister, was swanning around the United States of America with Shirley MacLaine or trying to crash one of Ted Kennedy's par…
  6. I am not like the Leader of the Opposition. I did not slither out of the Cabinet room like a mangy maggot.
  7. It is the first time the Honourable Gentleman has got out from under the sunlamp.
  8. Soon we will be at the stage where he will be offering us a free set of steak knives.

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