It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education.

The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases.

I will never ever support a people swap where you can send a 13 year old child, unaccompanied to a country without supervision. Never, it'll be over my dead body. How dare they.

I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.

Fiscal policy, monetary policy, they need to work together to try and raise the level of growth.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.

Everyone is a buyer, everyone's a potential purchaser and everyone's a potential vendor.

As Australians, we must not leave our children worse off. That’s not fair. That is not our way.

I'm not going to count the dollars before they've come in.

I'm not as bearish as many others about China. Why? Because China must grow. So I am far more optimistic about China.

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

Build your world around your dreams rather than trying to fit your dreams into the world you know.

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.

Be true to yourself. Be true to those you lead.

I think that you take the path of least resistance. And for a lot of people comedy is that path. I mean, even against mainstream, it's easier to sell a comedy than a drama.

The need of truth is more sacred than any other need.

Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.