John Hewson Quotes
"Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing."
- John Hewson
(Related: Strategy, Exercise, Nothing)
"I got a bit enamoured with bigger houses and things like that."
- John Hewson
(Related: Houses)
"I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off."
- John Hewson
(Related: Habit, Question)
"I think the Prime Minister has embarked on a journey and he has no idea where he's taking us."
- John Hewson
(Related: Idea, Journey)
"I'm not tied to any particular political line."
- John Hewson
"I was not a politician."
- John Hewson
"I've been arguing this for months. This is not our war. This is not a war we should be in. Australia's better spending its time negotiating with North Korea."
- John Hewson
(Related: Time, War, Months)
"Silence is best."
- John Hewson
(Related: Silence)
"The only person you resent is yourself."
- John Hewson
"The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years."
- John Hewson
(Related: Conflict, Fool, Months, Reality, Waiting, Will, Years)
"To make us a terrorist target in a region that is full of terrorism is dumb and unforgiveable."
- John Hewson
(Related: Dumb, Terrorism)
"To send our troops, our ships, our planes to this war is ridiculous."
- John Hewson
(Related: War, Ships, Troops)
"Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party."
- John Hewson
(Related: Party, Will)
"We've lost sight of our role in the region and our view of our colleagues in the region."
- John Hewson
(Related: Sight)
"I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers."
- John Hewson
(Related: Politics, Time, Wife, Careers, Stress)
"It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work."
- John Hewson
(Related: War, Work)