Kevin Rudd Quotes

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.

Would you like to work at home and earn $150 per hour with data entry?

Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

John Howard has gone a bridge too far by not going far enough

I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.

Australia is a nation of compassion. Courage and compassion. And the third of these great values: resilience.

John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency.

Building a new Health and Hospitals Network is fundamental to building a stronger and fairer Australia.

Mr Howard's problem is for so long he's been a climate change sceptic, how can he, therefore, put himself to the country as part of a climate change solution for the future.

The Government's mission is to build a strong and fair Australia capable of meeting the new challenges of the 21st century.

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold.

I was elected by the Australian people to bring back a fair go for all Australians. I have given my absolute best to do that.

It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged.

A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.

Senator Obama's message of hope is not just for America's future, it is also a message of hope for the world as well. A world which is now in many respects fearful for its future.

Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.

Australians are a passionate lot. We are also a very practical lot.

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

My fundamental interests are to preserve the good name and standing of this Australian Labor Party and to act in the national interest on behalf of the Australian Government.