Gough Whitlam Quotes
Maintain your rage and enthusiasm for the campaign for the election now to be held and until polling day.
Whitlam, Gough. Speech on the Steps of Parliament House. 11 Nov. 1975, Canberra. Quoted in Kelly, Paul. The Dismissal: Australia's Most Sensational Power Struggle. Angus & Robertson, 1983, p. 275.
Canadian election campaigns are by American standards extremely short, just a few months. Although she was trying to say that the particular issue takes more time to discuss and resolve satisfactorily in such a limited time frame, this particular gaffe was one of her more commonly quoted. Canada's first female Prime Minister. See Grover Cleveland who faced a similar situation and came our less scathed.
The supervisor was accosted by a citizen who was vituperative in denouncing a recently passed ordinance regarding the curbing of dogs:
The implication is that in a political race, it is only the horses ass that runs.
Edward Gough Whitlam AC QC was the 21st Prime Minister of Australia, serving from 1972 to 1975. He led the Australian Labor Party (ALP) to power for the first time in 23 years at the 1972 election. He won the 1974 election before being controversially dismissed by the Governor-General of Australia, Sir John Kerr, at the climax of the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis. Whitlam remains the only Australian prime minister to have been removed from office in this manner.