Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.

I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.

We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia.

And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.

Saint abroad and a devil at home.

I want to be happy while I make movies and not just do things just to work. I want to do things I spend years on.

If they come back it's a night we'll remember for a long time. But that's a capital if.

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

Those are brave men... lets go kill them

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility.

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin.