Quotes from John Howard

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

Australia will always be closer to the U.S. than she is to China because our values and political traditions are much closer.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.

We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.

Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.

Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.