10 Paul Keating Quotes on Leadership

Paul Keating quotes on leadership

1. From this day onwards, Howard will wear his leadership like a crown of thorns, and in the parliament I'll do everything to crucify him.

5. The Placido Domingo of Australian politics.

10. Don't ask me any more questions about Mahathir. I couldn't care less frankly whether he comes to Seattle or not next year. APEC is bigger than all of us - Australia, the United States, Malaysia, Mahathir - or any other recalcitrants.

18. The little desiccated coconut is under pressure and he is attacking anything he can get his hands on... (he is) still there araldited to the seat.

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

34. I was implying that the Honourable Member for Wentworth was like a lizard on a rock - alive, but looking dead.

37. I'd put him in the same class as the rest of them: mediocrity.

40. 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.

43. He, as Foreign Minister, was swanning around the United States of America with Shirley MacLaine or trying to crash one of Ted Kennedy's parties...and he was trying to play statesman...while he swanned around, and then he made a cowardly attack upon the former Prime Minister before slinking back into his cabinet.

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