I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

I was never ready and could you see it in the way time collapsed in my syntax? Because melancholia is the inability to sequentialize.

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

Elections are a festival of democracy. Everyone must join this festival of democracy and strengthen it.

I would rather be called funny than pretty.

I'm 85, and I'm still a sexual being, or a sensual being.

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

My parents are supportive of anything I want to do, as long as it's not bad.