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Alexander Downer Quotes

«We have to make it perfectly clear that whatever these people do, whatever threats they make, we have got the strength and courage to stand up to that.»
«It seems to us there's nothing much more we can do, but nevertheless I'll always look at proposals that are brought forward, ... Nothing has happened to lighten my pessimism. In fact on the contrary, my pessimism has deepened.»
«It's (an issue) I've raised with the Singapore government and I've made it clear to the High Commissioner that he should tell the Singapore government that I am personally very exercised about this,»
«I think the executioner should keep his thoughts and his ideas to himself,»
«It's a grisly job to be an executioner and I think executing people is wrong.»
«I would have thought it's not an unreasonable thing for a mother to hug her son before the son is executed,»
«This is a terrible and sad thing that is about to happen on Friday morning,»
«I think the general mood of the Australian public is that poor old Van Nguyen did something terribly wrong, but we're very sorry that it's going to end with him being hanged.»
«If we were to negotiate a free trade accord, we would have to see what areas of our economy would benefit from such a pact.»
«I regard this view as fundamentally mistaken, ... It misjudges the character of Australia's separate relationships with the United States and China, and of relations between China and the United States.»