I.B. George Quotes

It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

I don't really know a lot about these 'anti-protest' laws. I'm only vaguely aware of them, but I don't have enough detailed knowledge about them to comment.

I was President of the Queensland Young Liberals in 1981.

I was interested in politics since the age of 14.

There have been 44 constitutional referenda in Australia and only eight have succeeded.

The modern Australia, the Australia of the 21st Century, Malcolm Turnbull's Australia has nothing to do with the kind of protectionist and xenophobic attitudes that Pauline Hanson represents.

She is not being preferenced - she's not on our preference card because Pauline Hanson's view of Australia is basically a very - it's a very old view.

I think it would be frankly a retrograde thing for Pauline Hanson to be elected to the Senate.

Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.

I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in Parliament.

The [Maicolm] Turnbull government's position on this is perfectly clear. We believe that there should be a plebiscite so that all Australians can have their say, and that is what Australians want.

I am the enemy of anything parochial.

I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career had been encouraged by the Australia Council.

As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.

I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead.

There wasn't a lot of music in the home when I was growing up. We didn't have a piano or anything like that but my grandmother, had been a well-known piano teacher.

I'd say about Malcolm Fraser, as he said about himself, is that he was always, from the day he entered Parliament in 1955 until the day he died today, was a Liberal.

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

Capricornia is one of the most marginal seats in the country. So naturally the electoral battle is fought in the marginal seats.

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.

I think the cultural programming on the ABC is one of the glories of the ABC.

I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.

The political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.

There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.

The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation.

I smoke cigars because at my age if I don't have something to hang on to I might fall down.

It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.

I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.

If you stay in the business long enough and get to be old enough, you get to be new again.

Joy is obtaining a big, loving, caring shut-knit household in yet another town.

I'd rather be a flop at show business than to be a success at something I didn't like.

In what other business can a guy my age drink martinis, smoke cigars and sing? I think all people who retire ought to go into show business. I've been retired all my life.

How did I ever get sick? I've already had everything.

None of us kids had a middle name. We were lucky we had any name at all. By the time my mother got around to naming one, there was another on the way.

It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.

Not a sorrow, not a burden, not a temptation, not a bereavement, not a disappointment, not a care, not a groan or tear, but has its antidote in God's rich and inexhaustible resources.

Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

The instruments of war can be manufactured ... human blood cannot be; and the lack of just one pint could mean the life of an American serviceman.

I said bluntly that if the president were to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the elections I were to vote, I would vote against the president.

The general rule is that anything that is passed on in reproduction does not undergo senescence.

I am convinced that it is the light and the way.

The hardest thing about a musical is making sure everybody is working on the same damn show. That is the monster.

So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.

We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

And I hope America will realise, as the only superpower now, it really must use its power in a way that's going to build up the world, and to support the United Nations.

The outer eyes see only by reflection. The vibrationsfrom the inner eye, optic, is conveyed along the opticnerves and produced, spectacular, on the ether.

We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.

How do you write zero in Roman numerals?