Quotes about "Politics & Government"

My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform. ”

Every show is different. The public has always been nice to me. I'm fortunate that way. ”

Nobody has communicated with the public more than Lady Gaga. Ever. I trust the audience, and I'm very impressed. As far as they're concerned, she's part of their family. The only guy who ever did that was Bing Crosby, years ago. ”

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. ”

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing. ”

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader. ”

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go. ”

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked. ”

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow. ”

One of my kids was born in 1968. There were going to be political difficulties, but they were never going to have that level of hatred and contempt that my brothers and my sister and myself were exposed to. ”