Quotes from Paul Keating

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

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

The more we view the country through the prism of Aboriginality, the more likely we are to get the angle right.

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

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