It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.

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.

Common sense is no match for the voice of God.

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger.

Women wear heels because they think they make their legs look thinner.

Everyone's a racist. It's the one thing that makes us all the same.

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

I don't believe songs that try to say everything in a simple slogan.

Being married sucked. Maybe for some people it is not meant to be.

I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother.

A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.

It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.