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“I have more influence now than when I had the power.”

- Gough Whitlam

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“We would do absolutely nothing. Now that's a blunt, truthful answer.”

- Gough Whitlam

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“If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.”

- Gough Whitlam

Source/Notes: Abiding Interests (1997), Foreword

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“He reveals that he has been a poor politician, a bad judge and a malevolent individual.”

- Gough Whitlam

Source/Notes: Abiding Interests (1997), p. 44 On Garfield Barwick

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“I was profoundly embarrassed by it and did all I could to change it.”

- Gough Whitlam

Source/Notes: Quoted in Paul Kelly, 100 Years – The Australian Story (Allen & Unwin, ABC Books, NSW, 2001), p. 196

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“I'm not having hundreds of fucking Vietnamese Balts coming into this country with their religious and political hatreds against us!”

- Gough Whitlam

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“The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.”

- Gough Whitlam

Source/Notes: Written by Gough Whitlam for the London Daily Telegraph, (19 October 1989). (Andrews, 1993, p. 824)

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“When Sir Winton Turnbull was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: I am a Country member. I interjected I remember. He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.”

- Gough Whitlam

Source/Notes: From a speech during a debate on the question That Politicians Have Lost Their Sense Of Humour, Sydney Town Hall, 24 May 2000

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“Vincent Lingiari, I solemnly hand to you these deeds as proof, in Australian law, that these lands belong to the Gurindji people and I put into your hands part of the earth itself as a sign that this land will be the possession of you and your children forever.”

- Gough Whitlam

Source/Notes: Gurindji Land Ceremony Speech, 16 August 1975

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“[Of Governor-General Sir John Kerr, who had dismissed the Labor Government headed by Whitlam:] Well may he say 'God Save the Queen.' But after this nothing will save the Governor-General.”

- Gough Whitlam

Source/Notes: Speech, Canberra, Australia, 11 November 1975

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“I have more influence now than when I had the power.”

- Gough Whitlam

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“An education system where student selection is based on credit capacity and not merit capacity and where graduating students are no longer indebted to the nation, but increasingly indebted to the Australian Taxation Office - that's no way to improve the quality of education.”

- Gough Whitlam

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“The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.”

- Gough Whitlam

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“I'm the only P.M. of which that can be said - 'His legislation was never declared invalid in the High Court.'”

- Gough Whitlam

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