Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

One of the things you could do with your time is to convert it into a treasure and that treasure is called solitude.

The best way to describe your total creative capacity is to say that for all practical purposes it is infinite.

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

The world’s magic sneaks up on you in secret, settles next to you when you have your head turned.

My job is to give people who work hard all week something to enjoy on Saturdays and Wednesdays.

There is nothing so costly to the state as a ruined life

All things that pass Are wisdom's looking-glass.

Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me.

I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life.

A government held together by the bands of reason only, requires much compromise of opinion.