Paul Keating Quotes

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Paul Keating

Profession : Politician

Birth : January 18, 1944

When one has been touched by the stellar power and ethereal playing of a sublime musician, one is lifted, if only briefly, to a place beyond the realm of the temporal.

Paul Keating

Truth is, of its essence, liberating, as it is possessed of no contrivance or conceit - that it provides the only genuine basis for progress and that the future can only be found in truth.

Paul Keating

Aboriginal art and culture draws from the land, for Aboriginality and the land are essential to each other and are inseparable.

Paul Keating

As prime minister, the pastoral lease question was a very vexing and torrid one for me.

Paul Keating

My claim has always been that defeatism pervaded the conservative parties in the 1930s and that it was the defining characteristic of Menzies and his first period as prime minister.

Paul Keating

Politicians never fade away; they just keep carrying on, you know, their class.

Paul Keating