Paul Keating Quotes on Criticism
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I would forbid him going going to the Senate, to account to this unrepresentative swill over there...
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The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together
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For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's like one of those deep diamond mined holes in South Africa, you know, they're about a mile underground. He'd have to come a mile up to get to even equilibrium, let alone have any contest in morality with Kevin Rudd.
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He's a pre-Copernican obscurantist.
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I was implying that the Honourable Member for Wentworth was like a lizard on a rock - alive, but looking dead.
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(His performance) is like being flogged with a warm lettuce.
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The Leader of the Opposition is more to be pitied than despised, the poor old thing. The Liberal Party ought to put him down like a faithful dog because he is of no use to it and of no use to the nation.
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You've been in the dye pot again, Andrew.
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[Most politicians have] brains like sparrows' nests - all shit and sticks.
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What we have got is a dead carcass, swinging in the breeze, but nobody will cut it down to replace him.