John Howard: Quotes about thinking

John Howard is 25th Prime Minister of Australia. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.

John Howard: 36 quotes 2 likes

“I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else.”

John Howard

Quoted in "Howard reasserts right to decide cultural identity," The Age, 20 September 1988.

Thinking , Country

“I think history will judge him very harshly for not having seized the opportunity in the year 2000 to embrace the offer that was very courageously made by the then Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barack, which involved the Israelis agreeing to 90 per cent of what the Palestinians had wanted.”

John Howard

On Yasser Arafat
Source: History will judge Arafat harshly: Howard, ABC News Online, 11 November 2004, 9 April 2019 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-11-11/history-will-judge-arafat-harshly-howard/583666,

History , Courage , Thinking

“We spent too much time in the first half of the nineties pondering whether we had to become less European so we could become more Asian, whether we had to become less British so we could become more multicultural. We had this perpetual seminar on our national identity, contributed to overwhelmingly by the cultural dietitians. I never thought Australians had any doubt as to what their identity was. And I think we’ve moved on from all of that.”

John Howard

2006 interview with Time

Thinking , Time

“I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.”

John Howard

Terrorism Summit (Friday, 5 August 2005)

People , Thinking , Forgetting

“A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.”

John Howard

Quote from The Howard Era.

Thinking