A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.

Would you like to work at home and earn $150 per hour with data entry?

It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.

Illiteracy and stupidity are not quite different statuses

Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

Gus knew. Gus knows. I will not tell you our love story, because—like all real love stories—it will die with us, as it should. I'd hoped that he'd be eulogizing me.

It is the experiences, the memories, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! Thank you. Thank you.

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.