Quotes about keating (10 Quotes)




    But Watson would have told us, had the full version gone ahead, that this was a dominating woman who drove him I suppose, dare one suggests, in much the same way that Janette Howard might drive John. But that Keating felt unsupported finally. This is murky territory. The only one who is entitled to comment, apart from the players, is Don.


    Keating understood the power of tradition yet he loved to break the rules and create a new orthodoxy. That's what he did as treasurer saying, in effect, that Labor runs a market model with equity, and it worked. When he became PM, he tried to construct a new set of Labor beliefs based on Asian engagement, reconciliation and the republic. For Keating, these weren't just policies they were the new Labor template handed down from the mount. The trouble, of course, was his inability to convert a lot of the public.


    Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.

    Ryan's leg started to come around a little bit better at the end of the week. Keating has done a good job in there, and I liked the way he's played. But as Ryan gets healthier, we'll just have to open it up to some competition and see who emerges.


    Success is easy. Any mug can be successful and make a fist of it. It's how you deal with it afterwards that is the test of character. I've watched a lot of people lose everything. Now Keating in a sense has lost everything. If you add up all the things he's lost, it's pretty significant. But there is still an absolutely remarkable, unbroken, interesting, involved bloke who is not crushed by what he's been through at all. He's still defiant, he's still funny, he's still full of ideas.

    I'm absolutely gob-smacked. I never, in a million, billion years thought that you were going to sing like that. You could sell a lot of records and you have the look of Ronan Keating. You could be very special.



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