“I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.”

John Howard

“I'm not in favour of going back to a White Australia policy. I do believe that, if it [non-European immigration] is in the eyes of some in the community, it's too great, it would be in our immediate t...”

John Howard

“I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.”

John Howard

“.. you must remember that the Australian voter has a short memory span... in fact, less than 14 days in most cases!”

John Howard

“I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.”

John Howard