A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.

No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.

I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

Sophie felt as if she were encased in a glass globe called summer.

That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.

It takes one hen to lay an egg, but seven men to sell it.

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

Responsibility is good for your soul

I can't exist without books.

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

I'm quite a fan of British designers.