John Howard Quotes
It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.
Howard, John. "Press Conference." Parliament House, Canberra, 2005.
Defending the concept of military or police drug interdiction action in foreign countries:
It is not clear whether Fish actually believed what he was saying or was using extreme hyperbole for the purposes of passing an act he favored. This type of statement made by otherwise respectable government officials has developed a view on the part of many Americans that the Government lies about marijuana. See {593333} and {593334} for other examples.
He was the first Chinese official to make opium illegal. However, British many merchants were involved in a complicated trade scheme whereby they brought opium to Canton. They paid not attention to the new laws against opium the same as their Chinese customers. Lin Zexu, perceiving Queen Victoria to have powers equivalent to the Chinese Emperor who could do anything in China, He assumed that the Queen could and would control the merchant’s behavior, and before punishing the British merchants, he was putting the Queen on notice. There is no record of what Victoria did, if anything. When Lin Zexu tried to enforce his ban on opium, the British Merchants resisted and the First Opium War broke out between China and Britainin which the Chinese were humiliated and resent to this day. A bronze statue of Lin Zexu was erected in his honor in Chatham Square (Kimlau Square) of New York City's Chinatown.
John Winston Howard OM AC SSI is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th Prime Minister of Australia (1996–2007) and Leader of the Liberal Party (1985–1989; 1995–2007). His nearly twelve-year tenure as Prime Minister is the second-longest in history, behind only Sir Robert Menzies, who served for eighteen non-consecutive years. He has also been the oldest living former Australian Prime Minister since the death of Bob Hawke in 2019.