So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it's much more of a reflection on them than it is on me.

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

Yes, I don't think I shall ever become Prime Minister. Hard as that is to swallow, I tell you one person who is very happy always to see me say that, and that's my wife.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

It's not how a photographer looks at the world that is important. It's their intimate relationship with it.

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.

I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.

True freedom is always spiritual. It has something to do with your innermost being, which cannot be chained, handcuffed, or put into a jail.

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

If you're getting married less you're getting less divorces.