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I believe [ Rajiv Gandhi] had a real sense that he would be assassinated.

Bob Hawke

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.
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Charles Elizabeth Personality Queens Question Think Thinking
The world will not wait for us.
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Leadership Waiting World
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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[ Elizabeth II] has immersed herself, in the sense [that] she can speak intelligently about any and all members of the Commonwealth and she has played a role.
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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.
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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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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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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
George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn’t far behind in a way.
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It had things that it could do and which I thought were worthwhile: one would be South Africa, of course. And, as I said, I assumed a leadership role within the Commonwealth on that.
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Commonwealth Leadership Roles Worthwhile
Institutions do live on their history.
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Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.
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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.
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You could talk to her about any of the fifty-one countries of the Commonwealth and you could have an intelligent conversation with her about the economics, the politics. She really immersed herself in the Commonwealth.
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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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Anything Commonwealth Organisation Sporting Sports
It was a remarkable relationship. Margaret [Thatcher] and I had a love/hate relationship. She was always defending the South African regime and we had some terrible fights, including an enormous one in Canada.
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