Long gone were the days when, for an individual, a second-class education was a ticket to a secure, full-time menial job. In the 21st-century economy, with its new technology, many of those jobs had been destroyed. That second-class education was more likely to precede a marginalised life with no continuing work.

— Julia Gillard

Julia Gillard Quotes

I’m angry and I understand why Australians paying mortgages are angry.

— Julia Gillard

Any sort of political correctness needs to be swept out of the way.

— Julia Gillard

In Australia, average temperatures have risen almost one degree since 1910, and each decade since the 1940s has been warmer than the one before. That warming is real. Its consequences are real. And it will change our lives in real and practical ways.

— Julia Gillard

I know people are looking at whats happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

— Julia Gillard

Here in Australia we do get impacted by global economic events. But we should have some confidence that our economy has got strong underlying fundamentals.

— Julia Gillard

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One of my prized possessions is still the prefect’s tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.

— Julia Gillard

We encourage China to engage as a good global citizen and we are clear-eyed about where differences do lie.

— Julia Gillard

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

— Julia Gillard

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

— Julia Gillard

There are some things that can’t be measured.

— Julia Gillard

The Prime Minister seems now to be basing his re-election campaign on this plot line. He is saying to the Australian people, look out, the baddies behind you – hiss, boo and whatever you do, don’t vote Labor. This political parody of pantomime is looking and sounding desperate.

— Julia Gillard

The first film I remember seeing was Bambi. It has stayed with me because it was so sad.

— Julia Gillard

There’s not a sense that the person who is waiting on the table is somehow a lesser person that the person who is eating in the restaurant.

— Julia Gillard

The caricature of my own face always makes me laugh.

— Julia Gillard

The great thing about music is that whatever you’re into, you see new possibilities.

— Julia Gillard

I was not going to stand before the nation as prime minister and cry for myself. I was not going to let anyone conclude that a woman could not take it. I was not going to give any bastard the satisfaction. I was going to be resilient one more time.

— Julia Gillard

Long gone were the days when, for an individual, a second-class education was a ticket to a secure, full-time menial job. In the 21st-century economy, with its new technology, many of those jobs had been destroyed. That second-class education was more likely to precede a marginalised life with no continuing work.

— Julia Gillard

Indigenous children, children from the poorest of homes, can succeed to the highest of standards if we, the adults, are prepared to do everything necessary to get them a great education.

— Julia Gillard

Nurture your sense of self, who you are in your own eyes, not as seen through the eyes of others.

— Julia Gillard

I found Chancellor Merkel’s frankness admirable. When I met with her at this G20 meeting, with deep cynicism she described how for photos Germans no longer said ‘cheese’. Instead they would grit their teeth and say ‘Greeeece’.

— Julia Gillard

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