I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

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

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

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.

Mattia's voice no longer stirred anything in his stomach, but he was aware of the idea of him and always would be, as the only true benchmark for everything that had come afterward.

My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.

a certain red cardinal sounded like a little bottle being filled up, up, up with some clear liquid.

I get a moral satisfaction out of putting things together.

Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

I realized there was a better way to broadcast the news that empowered people to believe they could overcome challenges.

unless a religion springs from within the people themselves, it is a weapon of the system.