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One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

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I always believed in burning up the government's political capital, not being Mr Safe Guy, you know?

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I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

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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.

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You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and the South Pacific Forum.

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You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.

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I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.

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The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

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Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

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The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Politician

Born: January 18th, 1944

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