"There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does."

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I had a good personal relationship with Lee Kuan Yew and I used him, in the sense, that he... He made a statement in 1980, and he said in that statement that, "If Australia keeps going the way it is, it will finish up the poor, white trash of Asia." And he was right, because we were just going backwards.

— Bob Hawke