By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty..

My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greate….

The world will not wait for us..

The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest..

In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more….

We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation..

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality..

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom..

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa..

I believe [ Rajiv Gandhi] had a real sense that he would be assassinated..

It [also] lives on its history, now, to some extent: its achievements [ of the Commonwealth] in Rhodesia and South Africa, which were enormous. And t….

[ Rajiv Gandhi] was such an infinitely more attractive leader than his mother..

I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human be….

The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happines….

Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon..

I rang my friend Jim Wolfensohn, who was then running a private commercial bank in New York. I said, "Come up to Vancouver", and he did. I put my pro….

I told [ David Lange] he was crazy, because you can't have an alliance relationship if you refuse access to their ships. And the Americans wanted to ….

We were great mates [with Rajiv Gandhi]: very, very, very close friends. In fact, on my visit to India as Prime Minister, we were going to his home f….

I had a very close relationship with [Brian] Mulroney..

It was the South African Government that has introduced politics into sport by decreeing politically that no non-white person will represent their co….

I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It's very easy to underrate her significan….