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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

There is a reason why the cultures of Indigenous Australia inspire such fascination. And that is that they represent a unique way of thinking about the world. A vision that over tens of thousands of years has risen out of the land, the power, the very being of our continent, Australia. ↗


— Kevin Rudd


#australia #being #continent #cultures #fascination

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

The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it be natural or a terrorist attack, there's only one part of our entire government, state or local, that is equipped to handle it, and that's the U.S. military. ↗


— Warren Rudman


#attack #disaster #entire #equipped #government

It's interesting to feel the pressure of having to be outgoing, because I think in general, as a human being, I'm pessimistic and introverted. But, it's cool, because it's a whole different side of me, and I impress myself. Even at times when I think that there's no possible way that I can be engaging, I'll suddenly pull it out and impress myself. ↗


— Nate Ruess


#being #cool #different #engaging #even

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education. ↗


— John Ruskin


#duty #education #first #food #fuel

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate. ↗


— Bertrand Russell


#apt #capitalism #embodied #exercise #fortunate

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. ↗


— Bertrand Russell


#freedom #government #itself #only #opinion

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having? ↗


— George Ryan


#capital #demon #deserves #determining #die

We haven't done such a great job, so I don't know why God couldn't have started over somewhere else. I don't necessarily believe in aliens coming to the States, and I don't buy into the government cover-up. ↗


— Jeri Ryan


#buy #coming #cover-up #done #else






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