"I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke."

-- John Howard

#Thinking Quotes #Average Quotes #Australia Day Quotes

“Well as much as I'm sure the people next door who are pretending they aren't looking at me would like to hear what I have to say, I'd rather say it to just you.”
“The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.”
“Dozens of members of Congress will be retiring next month, and some should be missed. But there is only one Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma senator the Christian Science Monitor has dubbed 'a rabble-rousing statesman.'”

Source : "Coburn, a True Statesman, Steps Down" by John Fund, www.realclearpolitics.com. December 29, 2014.
“I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.”
“Having babies is a blessing, not a duty,”

Source : "Former First Lady Betty Ford Dies at Age 93", www.foxnews.com. July 09, 2011.
“We are a continuum. Just as we reach back to our ancestors for our fundamental values, so we, as guardians of that legacy, must reach ahead to our children and their children. And we do so with a sense of sacredness in that reaching.”
“The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.”
“Dedication means spending whatever time or energy is necessary to accomplish the task at hand.”

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