Quotes About Bob Hawke

#1. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#2. By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

Bob Hawke

#3. My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

Bob Hawke

#4. On the smooth brown hair was a hat that had been taken from its mother too young.

Raymond Chandler

#5. The world will not wait for us.

Bob Hawke

#6. If the Kingdom of God is in you, you should leave a little bit of heaven wherever you go.

Cornel West

#7. The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.

Bob Hawke

#8. I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

Bob Hawke

#9. The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.

Bob Hawke

#10. Let me just say that, if you ever have the choice of putting your words in powerpoint or having them carved into 30-foot high marble, I'd say go for the marble.

Peter Norvig

#11. We actually look to the scientific community to kind of come back to NASA and tell us what the priorities should be. And then at NASA, we try to look within our budget and say, 'What can we accommodate, and what are the most important things for the nation?'

Ellen Stofan

#12. I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

Bob Hawke

#13. There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

Bob Hawke

#14. Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

Bob Hawke

#15. Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources between nations to be unalterably ordained by heaven and incapable of drastic rearrangement by the less than gentle manipulation of man.

Bob Hawke

#16. Pray to your God, open your heart.
Whatever you do, don't be afraid of the dark.

Jared Leto

#17. Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

Bob Hawke

#18. With the terrifying suddenness to which I, the Northerner, never grew accustomed, the equatorial night rushed down upon us and the moon came up.

Dore Strauch

#19. If God loves us enough to send us Prophets, then we need to love Him enough to follow them.

Sheldon F. Child

#20. We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.

Bob Hawke