Top 100 Rudd Quotes
#1. I remember having a feeling like, 'I can't believe this is happening!' Two years ago I was auditioning for The Disney Channel, and now Paul Rudd is saying, 'Hey man, congratulations on your Emmy nomination!'
Max Greenfield
#2. You know, in the WikiLeaks cables, the Chinese discovered that Kevin Rudd was urging the Americans to keep the military option open against them. This is hardly a friendly gesture.
Paul Keating
#3. You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit.
James Wolk
#4. Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot.
Nat Wolff
#7. Phil Rudd from AC/DC was someone I really liked a lot ... Not because I was dazzled by his playing ability - he was just a rock, y'know?
Tommy Lee
#8. 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
#9. Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
Malin Akerman
#10. I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had
Tony Abbott
#11. Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling.
Paul Watson
#12. 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
#13. There was this little shaggy dog on it, and Frank Weatherwax was working the dog. One day we were all sitting around, and Frank said, listen, my brother Rudd just got the rights back from MGM for Lassie, and said have your agent check into it. I did, and I went for a screen test.
Tommy Rettig
#14. Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.
Malcolm Turnbull
#16. I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He's a prince among men, and so talented, and generous, and effortless.
Kathryn Hahn
#17. I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.
Paul Rudd
#18. You blow in this end of the trombone and sound comes out the other end and disrupts the cosmos.
Roswell Rudd
#19. There's something great about the idea of working the land and living communally. That's healthy. That's good.
Paul Rudd
#20. It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.
Kevin Rudd
#21. We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe.
Kevin Rudd
#22. 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
#23. Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls
Kevin Rudd
#24. By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them
Kevin Rudd
#25. People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.
Kevin Rudd
#26. The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
Xavier Rudd
#27. Ultimate freedom has nothing to do with your life circumstances - it is the freedom of allowing the self to dissolve into the waves of the ocean. It is the freedom that is born through one's absolute trust in life.
Richard Rudd
#28. Because the time has come, well and truly come, for all peoples of our great country, for all citizens of our great commonwealth, for all Australians - those who are indigenous and those who are not - to come together to reconcile and together build a new future for our nation.
Kevin Rudd
#29. Acting in general you just feel kind of stupid doing it anyway, but when you're pretending to be rolling around and dodging a foot or riding an ant, you're having to really do it seriously and there's nothing there. You've got to put faith in the process.
Paul Rudd
#30. Follow, follow the sun, and which way the wind blows, when this day is done. Breathe, breathe in the air. Set your intentions. Dream with care.
Xavier Rudd
#31. Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.
Kevin Rudd
#32. The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.
Kevin Rudd
#34. I may drive in a few races next year if someone needs a substitute driver ... (but) if I were never to drive again, I have had a great career.
Ricky Rudd
#35. My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.
Paul Rudd
#36. The Australia to 2050 report highlights something that is well understood by South Australians, that infrastructure plays a key role in long-term economic expansion.
Kevin Rudd
#37. Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.
Kevin Rudd
#38. Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.
Kevin Rudd
#39. There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future.
Kevin Rudd
#40. I'm not gay, im just liberal-curious
Kevin Rudd
#41. Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
Xavier Rudd
#42. Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
Paul Rudd
#43. I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes.
Paul Rudd
#44. To me some of the funniest movies would be probably categorized in the dramatic genre, and likewise some of the most dramatic films, or films that have the most dramatic moments, are in comedies.
Paul Rudd
#45. I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that.
Paul Rudd
#46. So in terms of the global economic footprint, let's just say China within the next decade and a bit is likely to emerge as the world's largest economy. Obviously its foreign policy and security policy footprint increases and that creates both challenges and opportunities for us all.
Kevin Rudd
#47. If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage,
Kevin Rudd
#48. Oh, the weather outside is weather.
Paul Rudd
#49. A core challenge for Australia is - how do we best prepare ourselves for the Asia Pacific century - to maximise the opportunities, to minimise the threats and to make our own active contribution to making this Asia-Pacific Century peaceful, prosperous and sustainable for us all.
Kevin Rudd
#50. The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.
Kevin Rudd
#51. It's insane but it's a great insane.
Paul Rudd
#52. We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too.
Paul Rudd
#53. I do pinch myself, like when shows in non-English speaking countries are sold out, and people are singing my lyrics. I don't think I'll ever lose that; I'm always appreciative every day of the support I have as an artist, because I'm not a commercial artist.
Xavier Rudd
#54. To be a member of the Labor Party is to be an optimist - optimistic about the future of Australia, optimistic about the ability of government to make a difference.
Kevin Rudd
#55. I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
Xavier Rudd
#56. I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.
Xavier Rudd
#57. I'm a huge David Wain fan. He's one of my best friends now, but he just makes me laugh continually, much to the annoyance of his wife.
Paul Rudd
#58. Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.
Kevin Rudd
#59. Venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn't mean large. It's also the only one that's Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.
Paul Rudd
#60. I was elected by the Australian people to bring back a fair go for all Australians. I have given my absolute best to do that.
Kevin Rudd
#61. We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.
Kevin Rudd
#62. There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.
Kevin Rudd
#63. A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.
Kevin Rudd
#64. Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.
Kevin Rudd
#65. Humor is the most important thing in life. It trumps everything else and it's the only thing that helps me deal with everything else.
Paul Rudd
#66. On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency.
Kevin Rudd
#67. As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that. We are sensitive to the other priorities we've got as a nation and in the world, but in time the country will head in that direction.
Kevin Rudd
#68. My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric.
Paul Rudd
#69. Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.
Kevin Rudd
#70. The stability of global financial markets is a public good. If governments fail to protect this public good, then those who suffer are the working people of the world whose jobs, whose homes, and whose standard of living depends on it.
Kevin Rudd
#71. Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.
Paul Rudd
#72. We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.
Kevin Rudd
#73. These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.
Kevin Rudd
#74. No diplomatic intervention will ever be made by any government that I lead in support of any individual terrorist's life. We have only indicated in the past, and will maintain a policy in the future, of intervening diplomatically in support of Australian nationals who face capital sentences abroad.
Kevin Rudd
#75. Willie Nelson is the perfect person, it seems to me, to think about. Because something tells me that he operates on his own frequency.
Paul Rudd
#76. It is tragic that we have lost one of our nation's finest actors in the prime of his life. Heath Ledger's diverse and challenging roles will be remembered as some of the great performances by an Australian actor.
Kevin Rudd
#77. I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
Xavier Rudd
#78. I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.
Kevin Rudd
#79. Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.
Kevin Rudd
#80. The more you complain, the more you damage yourself and the world.
Richard Rudd
#81. In your telephone call, you [Malcolm Turnbull]said that neither you nor the Cabinet would be supporting my nomination. When I asked the reasons for this, you said that neither you nor the Cabinet has the view that I had the qualifications for the position [of UN's secretary-general].
Kevin Rudd
#82. John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough
Kevin Rudd
#83. For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.
Kevin Rudd
#84. Mr Howard's problem is for so long he's been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country as part of a climate change solution for the future.
Kevin Rudd
#85. Marriage is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond, only it doesn't last 22 minutes. It lasts forever.
Paul Rudd
#86. If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.
Kevin Rudd
#87. There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking about the world. A vision that over tens of thousands of years has risen out of the land, the power, the very being of our continent, Australia.
Kevin Rudd
#88. By 2050, the Australian population is expected to grow from 22 million to 36 million. That increase alone will put huge pressure on our towns and our cities. We will need more homes, more roads, more rail lines, more hospitals, more schools, just to accommodate so many Australians.
Kevin Rudd
#89. A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country, Australia.
Kevin Rudd
#90. Do what you will while you're able, find what it is that you seek.
Xavier Rudd
#91. There's a very specific thing you can do to get in magazines. I'm much happier to just show up and do the job. I haven't taken the active approach to making myself a star. I haven't been in a blockbuster.
Paul Rudd
#92. My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.
Kevin Rudd
#93. Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics.
Kevin Rudd
#94. Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
Xavier Rudd
#95. It's kind of like some kind of church for me, playing live. Each show, good people from different pockets of the world come and open their soul and let their spirits mingle and dance. That energy comes up through me, and all I do is channel it; it's like a circular motion and very sacred.
Xavier Rudd
#96. With the Australian Government paying more of the hospital bills, it will have the incentive to make sure people are treated through less expensive and more appropriate primary care services.
Kevin Rudd
#97. on. I'm getting cold.' Clutching the pluckers, I call her. 'Right,
Matt Rudd
#98. At no point during the making of this book have I inverted my penis although I did go to Blackpool which turned out to be almost as painful.
Matt Rudd
#99. I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference .
Kevin Rudd
#100. There is a deep affection in Australia for the Queen. And I mean the Queen's been the Queen ever since I was born. I mean she is part of the firmament of Australia's sort of national life; there's a deep respect for her role.
Kevin Rudd
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