My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

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.

Everything that you have was bought by the currency of time.

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece.

The Emoluments section shares with the Constitution. That's not a law that Congress could change or the president could ignore.

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

Jen and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

I used to live in a gap jumper, tracksuit bottoms and a fake flower in my hair. Shocking.

Nobody lives up to the norms that God had in mind when he first created human beings.

Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.

Perseverance: Try and try again until the goal is achieved. Never give up.

There is a fascination about crime, which is understandable, but hardly anyone talks about the families of victims of violent crime and the devastation that is beyond the victim alone.