Richard Glover famous quotes

Surely it's time for climate-change deniers to have their opinions forcibly tattooed on their bodies.
-- Richard Glover

#Body #Climate #Opinion

All our best heroes are losers
-- Richard Glover

#Wisdom #Hero #Australia

O Hope, sweet flatterer! thy, delusive touch Sheds on afflicted minds the balm of comfort, Relieves the load of poverty, sustains The captive, bending with the weight of bonds, And smooths the pillow of disease and pain.
-- Richard Glover

#Hope #Sweet #Pain

Australia is this former British colony at the foot of Asia. We've been involved - we've been in lockstep with America in every battle you have fought for a century. We were there in Vietnam. We were there in Korea. We were there in Iraq. We were there in Afghanistan. We are slightly apprehensive about the rise of China.
-- Richard Glover

#Korea #Iraq #Feet

Australia is very good friends with China, perhaps better friends than America is.
-- Richard Glover

#Good Friend #America #Australia

I certainly think one of the really amazing things about Mr. Trump's victory is there's been an immediate - what one of my friends calls a jump-to-the-Trump in Australia. So you've got politicians of all sides looking at this amazing result in America and thinking, I'd like a bit of that. Can I have a bit of that? And so the opposition leader has been talking about immigrants stealing people's jobs. The prime minister has started talking about media elites in exactly the same terms as President-elect Trump.
-- Richard Glover

#Jobs #Laughter #Thinking

There's been an instant desire to try to take some of the rhetoric that has done so well for Mr. Trump and apply it to Australian politics.
-- Richard Glover

#Desire #Trying #Done

We haven't had a recession for 25 years in Australia. It's partly because of our trade with China.
-- Richard Glover

#Years #Australia #China

I think there's just a lot of apprehension in Australia about the Trump victory. It's not that there are - some people are supportive, of course, and some people are dismayed by it. I think one thing that draws most people together - maybe 80 percent of the people - is a very strong view of American leadership and the American alliance.
-- Richard Glover

#Strong #Thinking #Australia

If Trump really can build up American infrastructure, that will help reinflate the world economy, and that would be a good thing.
-- Richard Glover

#Would Be #World #Helping