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We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.

Bob Hawke

I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he… He made a statement in 1980, and he said in that statement that,
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Australia Personal Relationship White Yew
I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.
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Camps Fighter Freedom Liking Much Too
Institutions do live on their history.
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History Institutions Live
While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed.
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Class Employment Income Leadership Society
The world will not wait for us.
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Leadership Waiting World
And that’s what brought the regime down. The last South African Finance Minister, Barend du Plessis, went on record as saying that it was the investment sanctions that put the final nail in the coffin of apartheid.
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Final Finance Investment Record Regime Sanction
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.
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Gentle Incapable Manipulation Men Rearrangements Resources
I believe [ Rajiv Gandhi] had a real sense that he would be assassinated.
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Assassinated Belief Real
We were great mates [with Rajiv Gandhi]: very, very, very close friends. In fact, on my visit to India as Prime Minister, we were going to his home for dinner.
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Country Home Minister People Prime Two Visit
George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn’t far behind in a way.
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Behind Fanatic Juniors Religious Way
We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.
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Genuine Good Relationships Men
Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.
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Mates Position Surreptitiously
And, of course, he was, because nothing more advanced his cause – the cause of terrorism – than the invasion of Iraq. It was an absurdity.
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Absurdity Advanced Cause Country Invasion Terrorism
By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.
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Australian Children Poverty
I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.
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Fence Squat Uncomfortable
It was Indira Gandhi who very much lined up with the Russians. And she was, you know, within the Commonwealth, basically one out on that.
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Commonwealth Country Firsts India People

We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.

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