He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

Life wasn't meant to be easy.

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down.

At 23 I thought I knew everything, by 33 I realised I knew nothing.

Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn’t mean to. And I didn’t kill her, kill her.”“Oh, I see. As long as you didn’t kill her, kill her, then that’s okay.

Such a small thing to cause so much trouble.

Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

In a lot of ways, it was a huge relief, not being a member of a troupe, being able to make your own decisions and kind of live your own life.

Adolescence is the period of the decisive last battle fought before maturity. The ego must achieve independence, the old emotional ties must be cast off, the new ones created.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while. Your children need your presence more than your presents.

I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.

The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion.