Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

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.

Does every christian obey Christ Jesus?

I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it.

I knew I couldn’t let her go, not again, especially then that I knew she would not ever come back if she did.

lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick.

He has been named as the heir apparent of the great Argentine hero, Diego Maradona, by journalists, players, and Maradona himself, alike. I'd personally put him in a drawer of my bedside table.

You know why I'm pulling your leg? Because I can't touch it from where I am.

Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.

We Athenians hold that it is not poverty that is disgraceful but the failure to struggle against it.

Everything I do is in the gym so I'm always in gym clothes.