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.
BOB HAWKE[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.
More Bob Hawke Quotes
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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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My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven’t improved Australia’s security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.
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As far as we’re concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.
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Brian Mulroney, myself, [and] Rajiv Gandhi; I think that was the real core [of the Commonwealth ]. That was the engine room, I reckon.
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The world will not wait for us.
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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.
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I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.
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The first meeting in 1983 was held in India and I was very off put by her. I just couldn’t abide her, basically.
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It [also] lives on its history, now, to some extent: its achievements [ of the Commonwealth] in Rhodesia and South Africa, which were enormous. And they’ll live on that for some time,
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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.
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The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.
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And it did seem to me that one way that we could bring the apartheid regime down would be if we did mount an effective investment sanction.
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By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.
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We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.
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I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.
BOB HAWKE