I'm not as bearish as many others about China. Why? Because China must grow. So I am far more optimistic about China.

We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education.

The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases.

I will never ever support a people swap where you can send a 13 year old child, unaccompanied to a country without supervision. Never, it'll be over my dead body. How dare they.

I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.

Fiscal policy, monetary policy, they need to work together to try and raise the level of growth.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.

Everyone is a buyer, everyone's a potential purchaser and everyone's a potential vendor.

As Australians, we must not leave our children worse off. That’s not fair. That is not our way.

I'm not going to count the dollars before they've come in.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

The death of a man is his sins.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

Making a wrong decision is understandable. Refusing to search continually for learning is not.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'.

Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.

Life is the flash in black heavens.

Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.

If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.