I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.

If we get it right, there need not be losers.

She looks uptown, but she ain't really. She's into football, she likes my chili.

People forget that a huge proportion of our jobs still depend on agricultural production in Australia so of course there are exports. That's easily overlooked.

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.

We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds.

All the people ought to decide, but now most states are tossed on the scrap heap and ignored

Life is brighter than we think and better as we are. We just have to open our eyes.

Within you is the power of unlimited creation.

That's the funny thing about trying to escape. You never really can. Maybe temporarily, but not completely.

I try to have things change before I get bored, and I figure other people might enjoy that too; I try not to let anything repeat for long enough that you can get used to it.

Life's values originate in circumstances over which the individual has no control.

This wife you have, Bird said at last, deeply contemplative, did you pay a great deal for her? She cost me almost everything I had, he said, with a wry tone that made the others laugh. But worth it.

No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

We have been saying this, both pre season and before the season started

The characters have desperation and it doesn't work out for everyone. Maybe it's not fair because I'm responding to the adaptations that smooth out the edges.

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.