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John Winston Howard, OM, AC (born 26 July 1939) is a former Australian politician who served as the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1996 to 2007. Only Sir Robert Menzies has served in the position longer. Howard was leader of the Liberal Party from 1985 to 1989 and from 1995 to 2007.

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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'.

Country, Destiny, Immoral, Racist, Think, Thinking

She was my accountant, so I just believed her.

Accountant, Accountants, Believed, Just Believe

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

Military, Reason, Should Have, Thinking, Unless, Weapons

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.

Condone, Injustice, Men, Peace, Powerful, Real

I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.

Accept, Challenges, Climate, Global Warming, Theory, Warming

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

Absolute Truth, National, Political, Supreme, Truth, Truth Is

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

11Th, September, Underestimate, World

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

Australia, Gift, Kind, Leadership, People, Process

The cross is not a detour or a hurdle on the way to the kingdom, nor is it even the way to the kingdom; it is the kingdom come.

Come, Detours, Hurdle, Kingdoms, Way

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.

Country, Greatly, Important Relationships, Relationship, Years

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

Wages, Economic, Economy, Lower, Instrument

There is much in American society which I admire, but I have long held the view that the absence of an effective safety net in that country means that too many needy citizens fall by the wayside. That is not the path that Australia will tread. Nor do we want the burdens of nanny state paternalism that now weigh down many economies in Europe.

American, Citizens, Country, Fall, Mean, Needy

Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport

Business, Character, Left, Remarks, Sports, Ways

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

War, People, Justice, Worthy, Deemed

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.

Community, Confidence, Courage, Disinherited, People, Risk

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

Country, Misunderstands, Quite, Sport, Sports, Thinking

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.

Queens, Majesty, Difficulty, God, Playing, Presence

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

Alive, Civil, Free, Important, Liberty, Stay

I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.

Blow, Citizen, Liberties, Taken, Thinking

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.

Belief, Idea, Ideas, Punished, Racism, Religious

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