I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.

I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.

We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

They ... asked me: 'How do you make your pictures?' I was puzzled ... I said, I don't know, it's not important.

The economy is so bad that bedbugs are now infesting sleeping bags and tents, because they can't afford to stay in hotels anymore.

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves.