Peter Costello famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

This is not the kind of country where you would feel comfortable if you were opposed to democracy, parliamentary law, independent courts and so I would say to people who don't feel comfortable with those values there might be other countries where they'd feel more comfortable with their own values or beliefs
-- Peter Costello

#Country #Independent #Law
The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place has been absolutely critical and if people looked at Australia now turn its back on economic reform, which of course industrial relations rollback or throwback would be, let me tell you, that would really start affecting confidence.
-- Peter Costello

#Australia #People #Fiscal Policy
I think Australians are rightly suspicious of people who will try and use religion for another end. I don't think that's right and I don't think it should be done, but I think it should inform values, and it does.
-- Peter Costello

#Thinking #Australia #People
You know in politics you are dealing in the realm of choices. You don't always have clear-cut decision between a thoroughly principled position and a thoroughly unprincipled one. You're making snap decisions with paucity of information, generally trying to do the best that you can, but you will make errors, and sometimes it's a decision between a bad and a worse alternative. It has to be done, because we need to order our society, and of politics it can literally be said: Bad job, but someone's got to do it.
-- Peter Costello

#Jobs #Cutting #Order
Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.
-- Peter Costello

#Strong #Australia #Becoming
As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, â€œLook, he's still moving!
-- Peter Costello

#Lying #Moving #Funeral
You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on a lot of things you did do and I must say, when I read some of these things I wonder where the journalists get them from. They generally speak to somebody who's spoken to somebody who was down the back of a pub who heard the barman say, and gradually finds its way into magazines or articles but no, that's not the case.
-- Peter Costello

#Lying #Years #Magazines
Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise.. compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise.. indeed demand for it.. in a system of checks and balances.
-- Peter Costello

#Government #House #Balance
When you're looking for votes, you are looking for votes from everybody, particularly the powerful.
-- Peter Costello

#Powerful #Vote
If you want to save, put money into superannuation, you will never find a better savings vehicle.
-- Peter Costello

#Saving #Want #Vehicle
Businessmen are always trying to advance their business interests, but they are not running for Prime Minister.
-- Peter Costello

#Running #Always Trying #Prime
Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.
-- Peter Costello

#Party #Influential Person #West

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