Neshia Rudd Quotes

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help. ~ Kevin Rudd

We all have different sides of our personalities, so I'd love to play some more different parts too. ~ Paul Rudd

We want a national emissions trading scheme, the Government does not and has rejected one for years. We want to boost the mandatory renewable energies target, the Government has failed to do that. We want a national demand side management strategy for the country to reduce electricity consumption and the Government, up until now, has done very little on that score. ~ Kevin Rudd

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet. ~ Paul Rudd

So in terms of the global economic footprint, let's just say China within the next decade and a bit is likely to emerge as the world's largest economy. Obviously its foreign policy and security policy footprint increases and that creates both challenges and opportunities for us all. ~ Kevin Rudd

Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many. ~ Kevin Rudd

I do not know whether I will be in this place for a short or a long time. That is for others to decide. But what I do know is that I have no intention of being here for the sake of just being here. Together with my colleagues it is my intention to make a difference . ~ Kevin Rudd

Paul Rudd is a huge 'Hot Rod' fan. ~ Bill Hader

The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about. ~ Xavier Rudd

My sense of stand up comedy would be so esoteric. ~ Paul Rudd

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution. ~ Kevin Rudd

There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know that it is not immune from criticism. But those who argue against the United Nations advance no credible argument as to what should replace it. Whatever its imperfections, the United Nations represents a necessary democracy of states. ~ Kevin Rudd

For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk. ~ Kevin Rudd

If Australia wants an effective United Nations, we have to be comprehensively, not marginally, engaged. ~ Kevin Rudd

John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency. ~ Kevin Rudd

When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level. ~ Xavier Rudd

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community. ~ Kevin Rudd

On Australia Day 2010, as we enter this second decade of the 21st century, Australians can be optimistic about our future, but we cannot afford to mistake optimism for complacency. ~ Kevin Rudd

Senator Obama's message of hope is not just for America's future, it is also a message of hope for the world as well. A world which is now in many respects fearful for its future. ~ Kevin Rudd

The more you try to force life to flow where you would like it to go, as opposed to where it wants to go, the less efficient you become and the more energy you use. ~ Richard Rudd

I just don't really get into all that sort of personal negative stuff. My job is to outline some positive plans for the country's future and perhaps Mr. Howard and the Government don't like the fact that I'm putting out some positive alternatives. What's their preference.. for me to be a negative carping opposition leader? ~ Kevin Rudd

Do what you will while you're able, find what it is that you seek. ~ Xavier Rudd

I may drive in a few races next year if someone needs a substitute driver ... (but) if I were never to drive again, I have had a great career. ~ Ricky Rudd

There comes a time in the history of nations when their peoples must become fully reconciled to their past if they are to go forward with confidence to embrace their future. ~ Kevin Rudd

Ultimate freedom has nothing to do with your life circumstances - it is the freedom of allowing the self to dissolve into the waves of the ocean. It is the freedom that is born through one's absolute trust in life. ~ Richard Rudd

There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you. ~ Kevin Rudd

A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme. ~ Richard Flanagan

I love Paul Rudd. ~ Adam McKay

Paul Rudd is too perfect. He's super talented, super nice and super calm. I just think he's a robot. ~ Nat Wolff

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest antiquity. We have Aboriginal rock art in the Kimberley that is as ancient as the great Palaeolithic cave paintings at Altamira and Lascaux in Europe. ~ Kevin Rudd

I conclude where I began, I was elected by the people of Australia to do a job. I was not elected by the factional leaders of Australia, of the Australian Labor Party to do a job - though they may be seeking to do a job on me, that's a separate matter. The challenge therefore is to honour the mandate given to me by the Australian people. ~ Kevin Rudd

The more you complain, the more you damage yourself and the world. ~ Richard Rudd

Paul Rudd is ripped. ~ Michael Douglas

It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there. ~ Xavier Rudd

Most of my instruments are handmade. ~ Xavier Rudd

2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation. ~ Kevin Rudd

What we have seen in financial markets should bring home to us all that the central organising principle of this 21st century is interdependence. For the century just past, interdependence may have been one option among many. For the century that is to come, there is no longer an alternative. ~ Kevin Rudd

If you accept it to be natural and normal to be gay then it follows it is not right for two folk who love each other to be denied marriage, ~ Kevin Rudd

We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy. ~ Kevin Rudd

People come into our lives and then they go out again. The entropy law, as applied to human relations. Sometimes in their passing, though, they register an unimagined and far-reaching influence, as I suspect Hughes Rudd did upon me. There is no scientific way to discern such effects, but memory believes before knowing remembers. And the past lives coiled within the present, beyond sight, beyond revocation, lifting us up or weighting us down, sealed away
almost completely
behind walls of pearl. ~ David Quammen

At my core, I'm a Midwesterner. ~ Paul Rudd

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls ~ Kevin Rudd

We have seen this complete right wing takeover of modern liberalism, and it is an ugly spectacle to behold. ~ Kevin Rudd

Oh, the weather outside is weather. ~ Paul Rudd

I don't really think in terms of genre, I think in terms of story and character. ~ Paul Rudd

I don't consider myself a comedian because I don't really concern myself too much with jokes. ~ Paul Rudd

You can find old Jewish newspapers from Detroit that have my promotional ad in them. It was a totally insane time in my life. Paul Rudd was also a bar mitzvah emcee, you know? It was like being a local rock star in Detroit. ~ James Wolk