Quotes by John Howard

• This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.
• Terrorists oppose nations such as the United States and Australia not because of what we have done but because of who we are and because of the values that we hold in common.
• Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.
• Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.
• It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
• It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.
• I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.
• I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.
• Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
• You can't fatten the pig on market day.
• I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.
• We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.
• We will decide who comes to our country.
• We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
• I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.
• I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that.