#cia

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

#first #first love #love #mary #queen

2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#australia #businesses #challenge #communities #crisis

But Australia faces additional regional and global challenges also crucial to our nation's future - climate change, questions of energy and food security, the rise of China and the rise of India. And we need a strong system of global and regional relationships and institutions to underpin stability. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#also #australia #challenges #change #china

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#apologise #australians #children #communities #country

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. ↗

— Rita Rudner

#annoy #being #find #great #i

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#everyone #family #increases #larger #man

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English. ↗

— Geoffrey Rush

#australians #condescended #delved #english #fact

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#fight #groups #images #make #natural

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#admit #america #applies #doctrine #does

Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it. ↗

— Graham Russell

#bigger #feel #many #provincial #resent