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You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

— Paul Keating

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This is the sweetest victory of all. This is a victory for the true believers; the people who, in difficult times, have kept the faith.

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better.

China is simply too big and too central to be ostracised.

Never get between a Premier and a bucket of money.

The dogs may bark but the caravan moves on.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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