I wasn't a great fan of Keating but I did love some of his phrases. "All tip and no iceberg" comes to mind.

Even the other day in the local Canberra Times Keating referred to a journalist who had written unfavourably of him as a "nong". You gotta laugh.

1. John Gorton, was as famous for his mangled syntax as for his mangled features and gave his critics many hours of harmless fun as they attempted to deconstruct sentences like his notorious explanation of his proposed health scheme:

"On the other hand the AMA agrees with us, or, I believe, will agree with us, that it is its policy, and it will be its policy, to inform patients who ask what the common fee is and what our own fee is, so that a patient will know whether he is going to be operated on, if that's what it is, on the basis of the common fee, or not."

2. Billy Snedden doing the thank you speech at one event in Queensland in the early '70s. Snedden had perhaps over-indulged slightly in the XXXX, and proceeded thus:

"Well, first of all I'd like to thank the good ladies of the branch here for providing such a scrumptious repast, and old Jack here for fixing up the hall, and Fred for getting us the sound system and his lovely wife for the flowers, and well, I'm sure there are other people I've forgotten, but who gives a F* # *k."

Not all the plum jam north of the Tweed could compensate.

Politicians aren't funny or a 'laugh'. When together, they are the most concentrated mass of dishonest, lying, greedy, malevolent scum that could ever be found.

Why be a politician? To gain power and money - why else?

evolution,
-Politicians! They seem to be human after all.-
If we, (their voters)are human then politicians are human too.
If we trust, respect and reelect them then how we can expect from them to change?
Yes politicians are human, smart human. The problem is with us(voters) who have blamed politicians but reelect them!
I like politicians but I like them even more when I discover how honest they are!
I HOPE TO SEE ONE DAY, LEFT AND RIGHT VOTERS, TO DEMONSTRATE SIMULTANEOUSLY AT THE OFFICES OF THEIR PREFERRED PARTIES FOR POLITICIANS LIES.
Antonios Symeonakis
Adelaid

Yes people!, they are quite the transparent little bunch of ME, MYSELFS AND I,s.( anyone here with the clue could do it). The extraordinary behaviour by some of these politician's should be looked at very closely and if considered to be outrageously distasteful they should take it upon themselves with a poll from the people and asked to simply walk away and resign.
It is important for leaders to show the grandest examples for up and coming new leaders and not the pathetic displays of a handful of bad apples.

I do see a lot of great leaders here in the making. Please follow the greats of the times and lets not forget there hearts.

All te best.

EVO

Evolution,

Not from ABC sources; I have heard of a late Justice, who had the nick-name "fish fingers", because of his appauling touching of women.

O.