If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

Defence is our best attack.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now.

We all have an expectancy of something, but who's to say it always goes that way? Nine times out of 10, life never goes that way.

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.

What is my proudest accomplishment? I went through some pretty difficult times, and I kept my sanity.

To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?

Is it wrong to leave relative security in favor of unknown risk at the side of someone you love?

I can't ever remember sitting around and saying, 'gosh let's hurry up and get these debates going, that'll win it for me.' Nope.

Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood, could suppose it is time of joys.

- If I tell you, will you let met go? - You bet, partner. [...] - You promised! - Nope. I said "you bet." You did ... and you lost.

Law of the jungle. The betrayee gets to eat the betrayer. --Dante Pontis