My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

I know people are looking at whats happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

In politics there's never a magic wand.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

Try harder every day to be better than the day before.

Life would move on with or without me, and I didn’t need to change myself in order to be beautiful, or happy, or worthly of love. I already was.

Sleep now, baby. I’ll be here when you wake.

You learned right away that applause sounds like love.

Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind.

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

Elections cannot inconvenience me. They ratify my will or I neuter them.

He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.

Fairy tales are more than true.

I am here wrongfully convicted and wrongfully sentenced.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.