“Never get between a Premier and a bucket of money.”
as quoted in a 2014 Daily Telegraph article http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/all-riled-up-over-an-empty-bucket/news-story/93c0bff6a075170852189ba9a7480365
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Paul Keating: Frases en inglés
ABC Radio interview, March 5, 2007.
On Kim Beazley's ALP Leadership, Lateline interview, June 7 2007.
7:30 Report interview, May 8, 2006
On the modern ALP, Lateline interview, June 7 2007.
“The Placido Domingo of Australian politics.”
Self description, based on the assessment that Domingo's performances are "sometimes great, and sometimes not great, but always good." Press Gallery Christmas dinner, 1990.
7:30 Report interview, May 8, 2006
From a speech he delivered in Bankstown, New South Wales on the 24th of February 1993
Fuente: http://electionspeeches.moadoph.gov.au/speeches/1993-paul-keating
Question Time, Australian House of Representatives, 1992, Labor in Power (w:Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1993), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_CHXDBq9Ps
Address to the Dáil Éireann, the lower house of parliament of the Republic of Ireland, 20 September, 1993.
“He's a pre-Copernican obscurantist.”
Referring to Prime Minister John Howard's attitude to industrial relations. ABC Radio interview http://web.archive.org/web/20070503051216/http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200705/s1911526.htm, May 1, 2007.
“I used to refer to him as Thallium, a slow acting dope”
Referring again to former Treasurer Peter Costello, 7.30 Report, August 6, 2008. 7.30 Report Interview http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2008/s2326431.htm
Referring to former Treasurer Peter Costello, launch of Unfinished Business - Paul Keating's Interrupted Revolution, August 6 2008. 7.30 Report Interview http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2008/s2326431.htm
“The dogs may bark but the caravan moves on.”
Referring to his economic record, 7.30 Report, August 6, 2008. 7.30 Report Interview http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2008/s2326431.htm
"A Prospect of Europe", 1997 speech at the University of New South Wales.
Election campaign launch, February 14, 1996.
Australian Labor Party national conference, July 1984.
Election campaign launch, February 14, 1996.
Speaking to John Laws on Radio 2GB, May 14, 1986.
In Parliament, circa 1992. Cited in Vulgar politics back in vogue http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2003/s1008343.htm, ABC PM, 11 December 2003.
Referring to former Prime Minister of Australia John Howard, 7.30 Report, August 6, 2008. 7.30 Report Interview http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2008/s2326431.htm
“Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?”
Referring to Howard Government Minister Joe Hockey, Lateline interview, June 7 2007.
1992 The Redfern Speech, launching International Year of Indigenous Peoples
“Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable…unimaginable…unspeakable.”
Speaking in 1992, as quoted in "Ned Kelly and 'Mary Poppins' writer among top Irish-Australians" by Pádraig Collins, in The Irish Times (19 August 2009) http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0819/1224252870389.html
“He’s the greatest L plater of all time.”
Referring to Treasurer Peter Costello, Lateline interview, June 7 2007. Lateline interview http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2007/s1945485.htm
In reference to Prime Minister John Howard. ABC Radio interview, March 5, 2007.
In reference to former Governor-General John Kerr. The Great Crash for The World Today book launch, 9 November, 2005.
“This is a low-flying person.”
Referring yet again to former Treasurer Peter Costello, 7.30 Report, August 6, 2008. 7.30 Report Interview http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2008/s2326431.htm
