Pauline Hanson Quotes
We must look after our own before lining the pockets of overseas countries and investors.
Hanson, Pauline. "Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 1996-97: Second Reading." Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Commonwealth of Australia, House of Representatives, 10 Sept. 1996, p. 3862.
The Country was still in the Depression.
the At that time American agricultural productivity was not as great as it would become. There was genuine worry that the world might not be able to produce and a food to feed its population. And America did not have the kinds of surpluses that its agriculture produces today. America can actually produce enough food to feed the world. The problem has been one of distribution and not production.
This quotation is very interesting in that it shows a President who was not very happy with the policies of his own Secretary of State. This would never have happened overtly after the FDR presidency. Prior, the Secretary of State had a great deal of independence of operation, which was one of the reasons that it was such a prestigious position. However, on modern times President’s would never publicly criticize their own Secretary of State. They would either control the policies directly, accept his/her actions as their own, fire the Secretary, for force him/her to resign as George W, Bush did with Colin Powell. Also, most Secretaries of State, spending most of their time on foreign affairs, become much more sensitive and sophisticated to the intricacies of the world situation, that their nuanced views are very often not viewed by American public opinion as sufficiently pro American. At the same time, there has been a tradition in America that the Secretary of State does not engage in domestic politics, so does not always seem to be pro American.
Pauline Lee Hanson is an Australian politician who is the founder and leader of One Nation, a right-wing populist political party. She has been a Senator for Queensland since 2016.