Vash the Stampede

• Joseph Chifley: "It's no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow."

• Robert Menzies (in reference to QEII on her first visit to Australia): "I did but see her passing by, and yet I'll love her 'til I die."
  
  
  
• Woman (heckling): "I would not vote for you if you were the Archangel Gabriel!"
  
  Robert Menzies: "Madam, if I were the Archangel Gabriel, you would not be in my constituency."

• Gough Whitlam: "Well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor-General."

• Pensioner (heckling): "You get paid more a week than we get in a year!"
  
  Bob Hawke: "You don't know what you're talking about, you silly old bugger!"

• Paul Keating: "This is the recession we had to have."
  
  
  
• Paul Keating: "The Opposition crowd could not raffle a chook in a pub."
  
  
  
• Paul Keating (in reference to Andrew Peacock, leader of the Opposition): "We're not interested in the views of painted, perfumed gigolos."
  
  
  
• Gough Whitlam: "That was a good speech. You should go back comrade, and get yourself an honours degree."
  
  Paul Keating: "What for? Then I'd be like you."
  
  
  
• Reporter: "You don't talk to ordinary people!"
  
  Keating: "Who says I don't ? Who says I don't ? I mean, I see as many people as perhaps anyone in public life could..."
  
  Reporter: How long is it since you've been to Fyshwick Markets ?
  
  Keating: "Not long, not long. In fact, if you get down to woollies at Manuka on Saturday I'd probably run over you with a trolley as I did a journo recently."

• John Howard: "I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke."
  
  
  
• John Howard: "I'm going to the football this weekend. I think it's almost sacrilegious to call an election while there are a couple of football Grand Finals on. I don't think the Australian people would thank me for that."

Anyone got some more?

Buzzy--Bee

How about -



"I knew I should have worn a flotation device. glub glub glub" - Harold Holt.





Buzzy

geordie mandy

Excellent
just heard about him on the big yin's tour of oz.
Mandy

Siren & Brian

Paul Keating............ "get a hair cut and a real job"


Bob Hawke.............." Any boss that sacks an employee today is a bum"

Lord Pom Percy

John Howard: No GST Never Ever Never.
Paul keating: l'm the worlds greatest treasurer
Paul Keating: Oz is the arse end of the world, l would rather live in Paris.

russmcp

Bob Hawke, "all you airline pilots are is glorified bus drivers..." or words along that line when pilots threatened to strike, went down well as I remember

Lord Pom Percy

When a female reporter told Bob Hawke that her sir name was also Hawke,
Bob hawke said " You must be a good root then"

Lord Pom Percy

Bob hawke: By 1990 no Austrlian child will live in poverty

NickyC

The Paul Keating Insults page http://www.webcity.com.au/keating/ has some really good ones.

kiwi_child

What about:

Bob Hawke (after 1983 America's Cup win) "any boss who sacks a worker for taking the day off tomorrow is a bum"

Bob Hawke: "no child in Australia will live in poverty by 1990"

John Howard: "there will never ever be a GST. The GST is dead"

Vash the Stampede

To be fair, he said that on the day after we won the America's Cup.

But here's another great one from Hawke:
Well, that much was true at least...

Siren & Brian

Its nothing about being fair, its a famous thing he said.

Ialibu

Attributed to Ming - Robert Menzies during an election campaign

Heckler "What are you going to do about 'ousing?"

Menzies "I'll put an haitch in it"