
politician
Primeiro-ministro da Austrália de 1996 a 2007
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Join the room“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 term interest and supporting of social cohesion if it were slowed down a little, so the capacity of the community to absorb it was greater.”
“Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.”
“In a sense, it's always a sombre moment in a country where you ask the people who have done the right thing to put up with inconvenience because a limited number of people have done the wrong thing, but that is the nature of a democratic society.”
“The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death...”
“Leadership of the Liberal Party is a great honour, of which I remain profoundly conscious. It is, moreover, the unique gift of the party room.”
“A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.”
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John Winston Howard é um ex-político australiano que serviu como o 25º primeiro-ministro da Austrália de 1996 a 2007, ocupando o cargo como líder do Partido Liberal da Austrália. Seu mandato de onze anos como primeiro-ministro é o segundo mais longo na história australiana, depois do de Robert Menzies.
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