Gillard's Quotes

#1. My task, as a member of this parliament and a 30-year member of the Australian Labor Party, as its former leader, as its former foreign minister and its former prime minister, is to now throw my every effort in securing Julia Gillard's re-election as Labor prime minister at the next election.

Kevin Rudd

#2. My current fear is that the message being sent by the level of vitriol surrounding Gillard's flawed leadership (but tell me whose wasn't flawed) is being heard by Australian women and girls loud and clear. And the message is: 'Don't aspire to high office,sweetheart, because we'll flay you alive.'

Jane Caro

#3. I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

Julia Gillard

#4. Australians can trust me to get the job done. They can have the confidence that in the heart of the circumstances I will win through in their interests no matter how relentlessly negative the leader of the opposition is.

Julia Gillard

#5. Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity ... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

Julia Gillard

#6. So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.

Julia Gillard

#7. We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

Julia Gillard

#8. If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Julia Gillard

#9. Afghanistan must never again be a safe haven for terrorism.

Julia Gillard

#10. In politics there's never a magic wand.

Julia Gillard

#11. In my view, the ideal prime minister is patient, hard-working, compassionate and has a clear vision, driven by the fair go.

Julia Gillard

#12. I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism,

Julia Gillard

#13. One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.

Julia Gillard

#14. We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of volunteers. Today they constitute what's referred to as 'the social economy'.

Julia Gillard

#15. America has always understood this principle of the economy - that everyone can benefit when everyone competes.

Julia Gillard

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Cheri Gillard

#17. The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.

Julie Bishop

#18. Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.

Julia Gillard

#19. It's been a long time, you see. There's been no one for five years. Not since Gavin. I've spent five years murdering what I felt for him, starving my need for him, purging my memory. But somehow it still feels...too soon. They say time heals, but--'
'They lied,' he said simply.

Linda Gillard

#20. Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

Julia Gillard

#21. I was not going to stand before the nation as prime minister and cry for myself. I was not going to let anyone conclude that a woman could not take it. I was not going to give any bastard the satisfaction. I was going to be resilient one more time.

Julia Gillard

#22. The global economic outlook remains fragile and uncertain. Global economic imbalances persist and we must address them or risk future instability.

Julia Gillard

#23. I am not surprised Cameron says he supports what Gillard is doing in Australia because we have, in the U.K., a totally misconceived climate change plan as well.

Nigel Lawson

#24. I am an anomaly - a woman alone, too young to be widowed and too old to be looking for a mate. I occupy that no man's land - no woman's land - between youth and old age.

Linda Gillard

#25. In the quest for comparative advantage, investment will flow towards those countries that can offer more output for fewer emissions. Inaction will cost jobs. Action will support jobs.

Julia Gillard

#26. We are constantly being told that we've never been wealthier. And many of us are. On average we all are. But that's just the problem.. no one is average.

Julia Gillard

#27. I am safe. For one night at least. Safe, moored to this man.

Linda Gillard

#28. Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

#29. He will always know as we know now that in the heat of battle he did not fail when mateship and duty called.

Julia Gillard

#30. Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

Germaine Greer

#31. I believe the team of Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard is the best leadership team for the Liberal Party and therefore part of the best leadership team of the Coalition for the country.

Kevin Andrews

#32. Gillard has not had a political success all year. The media package, and how it was adopted, has destroyed any confidence I could have in her office and instincts.

Bob Carr

#33. Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

Julia Gillard

#34. The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.

Julia Gillard

#35. There is a reason the world always looks to America.

Julia Gillard

#36. I know people are looking at what's happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

Julia Gillard

#37. I want you to know what I have told Australia's Parliament in Canberra - what I told General Petraeus in Kabul - what I told President Obama in the Oval Office this week. Australia will stand firm with our ally the United States.

Julia Gillard

#38. The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you - hiss, boo and whatever you do, don't vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

Julia Gillard

#39. I poured myself another glass of wine (white, now warm and disgusting, but I was in a masochistic mood)

Linda Gillard

#40. Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

Julia Gillard

#41. All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents ... consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

Julia Gillard

#42. A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.

Richard Flanagan

#43. Try harder every day to be better than the day before.

Julia Gillard

#44. My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

Julia Gillard

#45. You're like a box of chocolates with the menu missing - the card that tells you what they are. I never know what I'm going to get with you: a soft, creamy centre, something chewy, or an explosion of alcohol.

Linda Gillard

#46. At the end of the day government is about teamwork and partnership and we will be proving that by working together.

Julia Gillard

#47. The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

Julia Gillard

#48. And I'll be around, Rose. I'll be there all the time. When you're working I'll ring you up from school and remind you to take your medication. I won't go away for weeks and months at a time. You'll know where I am and it will never be far away.

Linda Gillard