I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.

No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.

I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia.

She had the world’s worst poker face: her feelings floated across them like reflections on a still pond.

Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

I think my friends wife has been banging a black guy. Because they just had a baby. And the baby had a hole in it.

The one thing I feel is very hopeful, however, is the overwhelming participation of women in the movement for change.

Honestly, self-care is not fluffy - it's something we should take seriously.

If millions are born millions must die.

Ah, if only there were two of me, she thought, one who spoke and the other who listened, one who lived and one who watched, how I would love myself! I would envy no one.

Hang him, swaggering rascal!