One of my prized possessions is still the prefect's tie that I got in this school. I keep it with me. It was the first leadership position I ever had.

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.

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him.

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.

Every great leap in life comes after you have made a clear decision of some kind.

Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!

History tells us that the threat to prosperity is not debt but socialism.

The patient says, "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Then don't do that!"

I desperately want children. I want like four of them. But I will never have them, I mean at least with the current circumstances, living with my boyfriend.

I conceive the essential task of religion to be "to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind".

You have to be true to what you believe in and do your duty.