In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.
Paul KeatingIf there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.
Paul KeatingThe lesson of the Federation should be that the lesson is over. Australia must have a new idea of itself. We have to strike out in a new direction, in a new way, armed with our own self-regard, our own confidence and fully appreciating our own uniqueness. All other roads will lead us into the shadow of great powers.
Paul Keating