He said if you believe in the fatherhood of God you must necessarily believe in the brotherhood of man, it follows necessarily and even though I left the church and was not religious, that truth remained with me.
BOB HAWKE
It was very much an Australian/New Zealand initiative to have a nuclear free South Pacific. And the Americans were very apprehensive about this.
![Bob Hawke Quote - The personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]… For instance, once she goes – if she’s ever going to die, it seems to be questionable – if Charles [of Wales] were there, whether there’d be the same sort of cement is very questionable, I think.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/the-personality-of-the-queen-elizabeth-ii-for-inst.jpg)
![Bob Hawke Quote - I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It’s very easy to underrate her significance.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/i-think-there-are-a-number-of-reasons-not-least-of.jpg)
![Bob Hawke Quote - [Malcolm Fraser] went straight from Melbourne Grammar to Oxford. And he would have been a very lonely person, and I think he probably met a lot of black students there who were also probably lonely.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/malcolm-fraser-went-straight-from-melbourne-gramma-683x1024.jpg)
![Bob Hawke Quote - Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/geoffrey-howe-and-i-were-mates-and-he-disagreed-wi.jpg)
![Bob Hawke Quote - One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with each of them. You’d have an allotted time.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/one-of-the-features-of-the-commonwealth-heads-of-g.jpg)
![Bob Hawke Quote - We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there that sanctions weren’t working; they were just being busted.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/we-with-brian-mulroney-and-rajiv-gandhi-went-to-th.jpg)
![Bob Hawke Quote - I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He’s one of the worst human beings I’ve ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/i-hated-robert-mugabe-hes-one-of-the-worst-human-b-683x1024.jpg)
