If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Aus…

- Paul Keating

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find …

- Paul Keating

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

- Paul Keating

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

- Paul Keating

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

- Paul Keating

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

- Paul Keating

I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

- Paul Keating

One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is lo…

- Paul Keating

We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the…

- Paul Keating