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One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.

Bob Brown

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet’s 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
BOB BROWN

Age Billion News Voters
I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
BOB BROWN

Community Democracy Depth
The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
BOB BROWN

Ambition Champion Economics
We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million – that’s a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.
BOB BROWN

Amount Campaigns Groups Tasmania
We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.
BOB BROWN

Culture Diversity Imagination Nation Positive
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
BOB BROWN

Difficult Kids Thinking
$Bob Brown Quote - With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.$

With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
BOB BROWN

Children Dollar Money Sunken War
The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
BOB BROWN

Be Kind Planets Reality
Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it…our psychological beings resonate with it.
BOB BROWN

Being Humanity Psychological Resonate Well Yet
The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
BOB BROWN

Environment Lucky Reality
There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
BOB BROWN

Be Good Politically Presumption
When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!
BOB BROWN

Century Grandchildren Great Smile
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
BOB BROWN

Action Democracy Earth
So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
BOB BROWN

Eye Grandchildren Heart
I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
BOB BROWN

Absorber Shock Want
Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
BOB BROWN

Inspirational Men Success

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