Malcolm Turnbull Quotes
I've always been prepared to put my money where my mouth is.
Turnbull, Malcolm. Interview with Leigh Sales. 7.30, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2 Feb. 2017.
This is an example of a totally absurd intellectual position that the dynamics of a modern political campaign into which candidate can by pushed. In his primary campaign for the nomination, Romney had been castigated by other Republicans for changing his political positions to suite the conservative wing of the party. He was labeled a “flip-flopper with no consistent views principles. In this quotation, he had distanced himself from a campaign plan created by a rich Republican that would attack President Obama for the fact that before the Presidency, he had attended a church with a radical pastor. The plan was to tie Obama to the radical views of the pastor, despite the fact that Obama himself had castigated the views of the pastor. A reporter tried to remind Romney that months before, he had appeared on a TV show and himself said that Obama was not a good President because he had attended the church of the radical pastor. The reporter specifically asked Romney if he still stood by what he had said on the radio in the light of his current position which was the opposite, Romney had changed his mind. However, even though he could not remember what he had even said, and fearful that he would be again accused of being a flip-flopper, he felt it was necessary for him to tell the reporter and the public that whatever he had said, he stood by it. There are few fields or situations where any intelligent human being would take the position that whatever he/she had said in the past, was still their current view. However politics is often the exception and this quotation illustrates that.
Malcolm Bligh Turnbull AC is an Australian politician who was the 29th Prime Minister of Australia from 2015 to 2018. He served twice as Leader of the Liberal Party, from 2008 to 2009 when he was Leader of the Opposition, and from 2015 to 2018 when he was Prime Minister. He was the MP for Wentworth in the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2018.
