Paul Keating

"It really surprises me that some people in this party think we owe Westpac something. Or the ANZ Bank. Or the National."

"Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable...unimaginable...unspeakable."

"He’s the greatest L plater of all time."

"A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by…"

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

"The excesses of the 80s must not reappear in the 90s, The last thing we need now is a return to the 80s philosophy of 'greed is good' and that the only useful interest is self-interest."

"For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You know, it's like one of those deep diamond mined hol…"

"It was we who did the dispossessing. We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases. The alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from th…"