I think it's important to have a blend just as we need to have by the way a mix of different opera companies and different arts companies.

One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

I joined the Young Liberals when I was 16 and it was a good way for me to understand how the Liberal Party worked and to learn basic political skills and techniques.

The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.

The tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources.

It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.

The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

I don't really know a lot about these 'anti-protest' laws. I'm only vaguely aware of them, but I don't have enough detailed knowledge about them to comment.

I was President of the Queensland Young Liberals in 1981.

I was interested in politics since the age of 14.

There have been 44 constitutional referenda in Australia and only eight have succeeded.

The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.

I became very successful at a young age... I had lots of opportunities and lots of power and had no idea how to focus it.

I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.

There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

I keep lot of my opinions to myself.

Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not... you want to throw up.

Better than I was, more than I am And all of this happen by taking your hand And who I am now is who I wanted to be And now that we're together I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free

Life begins at age forty.

Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.