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Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.
Bob Hawke
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Bob Hawke
Age: 89 †
Born: 1929
Born: December 9
Died: 2019
Died: May 16
Former Prime Minister Of Australia
Politician
Trade Unionist
Union Organizer
Bordertown
South Australia
Australia
Robert James Lee Hawke
The Honourable Bob Hawke
Robert James Lee Bob Hawke
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I believe [ Rajiv Gandhi] had a real sense that he would be assassinated.
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I really had very little to do with Pierre Trudeau. He was off the scene very soon.
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I think there are a number of reasons, not least of which is the personality of the Queen [ Elizabeth II]. It's very easy to underrate her significance. I think she finds the Commonwealth and her position as Head of the Commonwealth infinitely more interesting than being the Queen of England, because she has no significant role in the latter.
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[ Rajiv Gandhi] was such an infinitely more attractive leader than his mother.
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I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.
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I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.
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[ Elizabeth II] has immersed herself, in the sense [that] she can speak intelligently about any and all members of the Commonwealth and she has played a role.
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As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.
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We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.
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The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.
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I had a very close relationship with [Brian] Mulroney.
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