If you've got good chemistry at the top, it's an enormous help. It's easy to have good chemistry with some, not so easy with others. With [Robert Mugabe], for example.

The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

The world will not wait for us.

My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.

I really had very little to do with Pierre Trudeau. He was off the scene very soon.

Never elated while one man's oppress'd Never dejected while another's bless'd.

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Political freedom cannot exist without economic freedom; a free mind and a free market are corollaries.

What creates reality is not reality, but you.

It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

The chief reason why the Christian believes in the divine origin of the Bible is that Jesus Christ Himself taught it.

I'm not sexually confused in any way. I'm very much - the word is pansexual.

I'm not a big jazz fan.