Quotes About Gorton

#1. It is perhaps accurate ... to describe the Daschle proposals as being 'Sex, Lies and No Videotape,' ... We insisted on a complete search for the truth, on the ability for the Senate to decide whether or not video presentations of these witnesses will be permitted on the floor of the Senate.

Slade Gorton

#2. There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

Samuel Johnson

#3. Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition

Julian Baggini

#4. He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

Malcolm Fraser

#5. Through the Adult the little person can begin to tell the difference between life as it was taught and demonstrated to him (Parent), life as he felt it or wished it or fantasied it (Child), and life as he figures it out by himself (Adult).

Thomas A. Harris

#6. Having fun?" said George.
"Yes, Mr Lane," said Dinkesh. "Kenny has just flown out of the window."
"That's nice," said George, banishing from his mind the thought that children as young as Kenny and Dinkesh would be daft enough to take drugs in their bedrooms.

Mark Gorton

#7. People don't mind if you have a lot of money if they know you're working for it.

Jay Leno

#8. When I rule the world," screamed the Bogey, "all antiques will be destroyed! Antiques will be things of the past!

Mark Gorton

#9. Gorton flu" quickly became a euphemism for pissed as a parrot.

Mungo MacCallum

#10. Speech is no more than a commercial approach to reality.

Lisa Gorton

#11. Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.

Bernie Siegel

#12. My mom chooses her battles carefully, and I can tell you one thing about my family. When my mom does say something, she always gets her way.

Stephen Chbosky

#13. You don't have to strive to be right, because you of faith are made right.

Deborah Brodie

#14. Along with William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin is Britain's greatest gift to the world. He was our greatest thinker.

Richard Dawkins

#15. Never be daunted

Ernest Hemingway,

#16. The political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.

George Brandis

#17. The worst prejudice we acquire during our youth is the idea that life is serious. Children have the right instincts: they know that life is not serious, and treat it as a game...

Egon Friedell

#18. The difference between those who adapted and those who didn't, Gorton said, was a willingness to totally commit.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#19. Consider what each soil will bear, and what each refuses.

Virgil

#20. This is the greatest week in the history of the world since the Creation, because as a result of what happened in this week, the world is bigger, infinitely.

Richard M. Nixon