I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

Life wasn't meant to be easy.

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down.

As for time, all men have it in abundance.

Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.

The same one who mistreated you will be the one needing you. So, don't hesitate to help. Because that will be the best positive revenge.

The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

Yet people in general will say they like colored men as well as any other, but in their proper place.

I don't believe in competition, ain't nobody else like me around

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

If they are the league ain't doing a good job of it.

I dislike math, yet I respect and appreciate the fact that math is the language of the universe.

I come from a good family. I come from a faith-based family.