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John Winston Howard je austrálsky politik a bývalý dlhoročný predseda vlády Austrálie.

V rokoch 1977-1983 bol ministrom financií a v rokoch 1985-1989 bol predsedom Liberálnej strany. Za predsedu strany bol opäť zvolený v roku 1995 a 2. marca 1996 porazil vo voľbách Paula Keatinga, dovtedajšieho premiéra z Labouristickej strany. Howardov kabinet bol znovuzvolený v rokoch 1998, 2001 a 2004, čo je najúspešnejší volebný výsledok od dôb sira Roberta Menziesa. Po víťazstve v roku 2004 Howard kontroloval až do novembra 2007 obe komory austrálskeho parlamentu. V novembri 2007 po prehratých parlamentných voľbách ho na čele vlády nahradil Kevin Rudd. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. júl 1939
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“But we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.”

2001 Federal Election Campaign Launch Speech, 28th October 2001
Kontext: We are as you all know in a new and dangerous part of the world’s history. The tragic events of the 11th of September have changed our lives, they have caused us to take pause and think about the values we hold in common with the American people and free people around the world. That was an attack on Australia as much as it was an attack on the United States. It not only claimed the lives of Australians but it assaulted the very values that we hold dear and that we take for granted. So therefore a military response and wise diplomacy and a steady hand on the helm are needed to guide Australia through those very difficult circumstances. National Security is therefore about a proper response to terrorism. It's also about having a far sighted, strong, well thought out defence policy. It is also about having an uncompromising view about the fundamental right of this country to protect its borders. It's about this nation saying to the world we are a generous open hearted people, taking more refugees on a per capita basis than any nation except Canada, we have a proud record of welcoming people from 140 different nations. But we will decide who comes to this country and the circumstances in which they come.

“Leadership of the Liberal Party is a great honour, of which I remain profoundly conscious. It is, moreover, the unique gift of the party room.”

Letter to Liberal MPs in 2006 http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/pms-letter-to-mps/2006/07/31/1154198052387.html

“The most important civil liberty… is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death…”

Terrorism Summit http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/id-cards-on-table-at-terror-summit/2005/08/05/1123125891748.html?oneclick=true (Friday, 5 August 2005)

“I think history will judge him very harshly for not having seized the opportunity in the year 2000 to embrace the offer that was very courageously made by the then Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barack, which involved the Israelis agreeing to 90 per cent of what the Palestinians had wanted.”

On Yasser Arafat
Zdroj: History will judge Arafat harshly: Howard, ABC News Online, 11 November 2004, 9 April 2019 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2004-11-11/history-will-judge-arafat-harshly-howard/583666,