Favorite Paul Keating Quotes

[Phony Moderate]

What are yours? Find them at this website.

Mine are:

"These intellectual hoboes"

"These are the absolute gutter tactics of a mindless, useless, idealistic, unprincipled Opposition."

"Mr Speaker can I have some protection from the clowns on the front bench ?"

[Knives]

Reporter: You don't talk to ordinary people!

Keating: "Who says I don't ?  Who says I don't ?  I mean I see as many people as perhaps anyone in public life could..."

Reporter: How long is it since you've been to Fyshwick Markets ?

Keating: "Not long, not long.  In fact if you get down to woollies at Manuka on Saturday I'd probably run over you with a trolley as I did a journo recently."

[Knives]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKhmTLN3Ddo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G0gizfu5Ms&feature=relmfu

[RogueBeaver]

The '93 debates. "Great big monster tax on everything."

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

You all probably know about this by now, but there's a new iPhone app that delivers insults from Mr. Keating:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/techknow/new-paul-keating-insult-app-for-iphones-real-nasty/story-fnda1lbo-1226540528212

[Talleyrand]

"We're not interested in the views of painted, perfumed gigolos."

"The thing about poor old Costello is he is all tip and no iceberg. He can throw a punch across the parliament but the bloke he should be throwing a punch to is Howard, but of course he doesn't have the ticker for it."

"Come in sucker."

"You boxhead you wouldn't know. You are flat out counting past ten."

"I have a psychological hold over Hewson...He's like a stone statue in the cemetery."


...There are too many to list out... I wish Australia still had politicians like Keating in the public arena instead of people like Wayne Swan.

@Reagan and Thatcher's Long Lost Son: I didn't hear about that actually. I'm going to have to download it, lol.

[RogueBeaver]

Of course Keating, like his friend Bubba, has a very wide oratorical range- not just colourful invective but also the statesmanlike eloquence, like Redfern and the republican statement of '95. To this day the ALP has never found anyone remotely in his league talent-wise, just the Coalition hasn't found anyone to replace Howard and Costello.