Paul Keating quotes
Paul Keating is an Australian politician who served as the 24th Prime Minister of Australia. A member of the Australian Labor Party, he played a major role in shaping Australia’s modern economy and foreign policy. He is remembered for his bold economic reforms and engagement with Asia. Here are 54 of his quotes:
[Australian Reserve Bank] Governor MacFarlane said recently when Paul Volcker broke the back of American inflation it's regarded as the policy triumph of the Western world. When I broke the back of Australian inflation they say, "Oh, you're the fellow that put the interest rates up." Am I not the same fellow that gave them the 15 years of good growth and high wealth that came from it?
Paul Keating
It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine these things being done to us.
Paul Keating
Between 1999 and 2004 there was no investment in Australia, it all went into housing and consumption all borrowed on the current account. When Peter Costello runs around saying, 'Oh we've paid off the debt,' it's like the pea and thimble trick. The Government debt or the massive private debt abroad? It's continuing to grow.
Paul Keating
Paul Keating
Occupation: Australian Politician
Born: January 18, 1944
Quotes count: 54
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