I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

The most important civil liberty... is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death.

You are not prime minister of Australia because of some kind of process of divine selection. You are prime minister of Australia through the gift of the Australian people.

I'd like to be seen as an average Australian bloke. I can't think of... I can't think of a nobler description of anybody than to be called an average Australian bloke.

People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.

Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful / Beyond all grace of youth

Let me tell you something: you can not write good fiction about ideas. You can only write good fiction about people.

One can't realize difficulty arriving at a momentous decision until one comes to do so.

If women are often frustrated because men do not respond to their troubles by offering matching troubles, men are often frustrated because women do.

It's abundantly clear by now that no DRM system can stop serious pirates. A DRM system that stops serious pirates, and simultaneously gives broad leeway to ordinary users, is even harder to imagine.

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

I'm really tall - almost six feet - and my features tend to be extreme, especially on TV.

Our Garrick 's a salad; for in him we see Oil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!

When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.