Mr Howard Quotes (35 Quotes)

After question time today, the Attorney-General will introduce into the House an urgent amendment to the existing counter terrorism legislation,

Just because women have no interest in guys like Nutt, Ray and Gray, it doesn't mean the rest of us should be disqualified for life,

Seven of my mates died. More than 30 were injured, ... When you see your mates die and then you see a gutless piece of shit like Brain posing as a hero it makes your blood boil.

we all accept we face a new threat of terrorism. We all want to take effective action against that threat.

The government has received specific intelligence and police information this week which gives cause for serious concern about a potential terrorist threat,

If there's some outcome, some merit in those sorts of things (I would support the summit),

I think we should debate all of the energy options that are reasonably available,

You have to ask yourself, I think, in the light of the way that the Prime Minister then decided to conduct affairs, whether or not it was something of a smokescreen.

I can assure your viewers that real minimum wages are not going to be cut,

We are having a debate, a discussion about the laws of another country, ... The Government can't change the laws of Indonesia. We can only put a point of view across.

I think the apology is more than sufficient.

We have reissued our avian influenza travel bulletin and travel advice and we have helped the Indonesians with medications in relation to this and we're in very close contact with Indonesian authorities,

This legislation is not aimed at any section of the community by racial or religious classification,

I think we accepted that it could happen here, seeing it happen in London, a city as I've said before we know better than any city in the world except our own.

If there is one confirmed case we would carry out all necessary measures, which means closing all the checkpoints, ... To prevent any possible hazard we would rather slow down our economy a bit, or let the people encounter some inconvenience. We set our citizens' lives as our first priority.

John Brogden leaves the Liberal Party as he found it leaderless, directionless, divided and without a vision for the people of NSW,

If you're living in a small business environment, you've got, say, five or eight people in an office or a workshop, and one of them is a pain in the neck and is making life difficult for everybody else, it's workers in many cases more than the boss that would like to see the back of him, ... That's a point that's overlooked by some of our union critics.

It will offer Australian trade qualifications and thereby enable people who pass through the college, not only to carry that qualification . . . into their own countries, but of course that would greatly help them if they wished to fill any of the skilled vacancies . . . in Australia,

The wannabe invariably attempts to get in on the conversations after he has had a few beers and then once he has the attention of the crowd he unleashes with his rubbish,

The family would have been more contented with five years imprisonment. They feel that justice has not been done as far as the sentencing is concerned. They feel let down by the system.

I can assure the people of Australia that the legislation finally presented to the parliament will reflect the agreement that was reached by me with all the state premiers and chief ministers. No more, no less.

It doesn't mean that JI is crippled but it does mean that somebody that is believed to have been behind the two Bali attacks, the Marriott attack and the attack on the Australian embassy in Jakarta may well have been taken out of the equation,

It's one thing to have the capacity to respond effectively in the event of a terrorist attack... it's entirely of another order to have the capacity to anticipate events,

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Prevention is always better than cure and that applies not only in health but it also applies in terrorism. You can't cure terrorism, you can't bring somebody back to life after they've been killed by a terrorist and therefore laws which are designed to anticipate and to prevent a terrorist act are laws that Australians should support, and I believe most Australians will support these laws.

Wilson, you are his horse, so I think you can sit down.

We do live in very dangerous and different and threatening circumstances and a strong and comprehensive response is needed,

We have made it absolutely clear that 28 days is the absolute limit of what should be permitted while there's no evidence that someone been involved in terrorist activity.

I'd like to think that I could wave a magic wand and send the world oil price down, but you know and the people who think about this will know that it is impossible for an individual country to alter the world price of oil on its own,

Home-grown terrorist threats are a greater reality to the Australian people now than we would have thought to be the case six or 12 months ago,

We do indeed face grave circumstances in Australia, it really isn't possible for any head of government to turn away, ... The situation is serious.

That involves an application to a magistrate or a judge and it is subject to all of the provisions and all of the safeguards that are contained in the legislation,

Now it was always ridiculous and it's done great harm to a product and it's done great harm to the consumer,

I thought it would be sensible for us to change the rules and a majority of the party agreed with me but not enough of them,

I ... understand that as a result of this issue, the status of that presidential decree is now being reviewed,