"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"

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Source : "Respect Australian values or leave: Costello". "Lateline" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2005.

Peter Costello

#Country Quotes #Independent Quotes #Law Quotes

“I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.”
“As the people grow colder, I turn to my computer and spend my evenings with it like a friend.”
“It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by by Leon Goldensohn, ed. by Robert Gellately, p. 166, 2004.
“I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.”
“David is the show. There are other writers, but it's David's vision.”
“For official purposes, these children do not exist.”

Source : "Lone Wolf". Book by Robert Muchamore, August 1, 2014.
“Persons who clamor for governmental control of American railways should visit Germany, and above all Russia, to see how such control results. In Germany its defects are evident enough; people are made to travel in carriages which our main lines would not think of using, and with a lack of conveniences which with us would provoke a revolt; but the most amazing thing about this administration in Russia is to see how, after all this vast expenditure, the whole atmosphere of the country seems to paralyze energy.”

Source : ANDREW DICKSON WHITE (1905). “AUTOBIOGRAPHY of ANDREW DICKSON WHITE volume 1”
“I have a very hard time with confrontation in my own life, and I end up being way too nice.”

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