6 Paul Keating Quotes on Power

Paul Keating quotes on power

3. Where members opposite all come a gutser is in the fact that members on this side all think that we were born to rule you. It has been ingrained in me from childhood to think that my mission in life is to run you, and the Prime Minister (Mr Hawke) thinks that his mission in life is to run you. In fact, the labour movement-that is, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and the great industrial labour movement of Australia-thinks that its mission in life is to run you.

7. I would forbid him going going to the Senate, to account to this unrepresentative swill over there...

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

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.

41. We're not interested in the views of painted, perfumed gigolos.

55. The Leader of the Opposition hurls all sorts of abuse at me, and all through question time those pansies over there want retractions of the things we've said about them. They are a bunch of nobodies going nowhere.