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

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 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.

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?

Cleanliness begins with the love for godliness

He reminded her of the way male lions look sad, as if their nobility is a terrible weight.

The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I've already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

People seem to think I'm Satan.

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

I am so glad we met at an undisclosed location over the summer.