If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.

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.

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.

Once the light shines on your path, you will see clearly.

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.

Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

The loveliest fairy in the world; and her name is Mrs Do as you would bed one by.

On May 3rd, THE MOMENT is going to be my moment.

When you're old, everything you do is sort of a miracle.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.