Institutions do live on their history..

I went along with it, and wanted to appoint a significant figure in Malcolm Fraser. I didn't have high hopes that they'd be able to do anything, but ….

While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present pars….

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism..

I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be on his knees morning and nigh….

There is a reciprocal respect for [ Elizabeth II], for her interest in the Commonwealth. The members of the Commonwealth recognise that here is a gen….

I rang Brian [Mulroney] up. I said, "What's this bloody nonsense. You've got a wheat trade with Iraq and you won't come aboard?" I said, "We've got a….

When George Bush Senior [George HW Bush] was getting his alliance together to go into Iraq - to kick the Iraqis out of Kuwait - he rang me up. I was ….

[John Howard] led the Government. They had the numbers, and just basically automatically went along with the Americans..

It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role….

I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he... He made a statement in 1980, and he said in that statem….

It was a remarkable relationship. Margaret [Thatcher] and I had a love/hate relationship. She was always defending the South African regime and we ha….

Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth….

I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect..

Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well..

I was used on a number of occasions by the United States and China as a conduit. For instance, I was up there talking with the Chinese leadership and….

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies..

One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with each of them. You'd hav….

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

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

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….