The climate change argument is absolute crap

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.

Every man is insane, however only a few actually have true insanity.

If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.

Why is feeling something for someone a weakness?

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.

In fact, if Christ himself stood in my way, I, like Nietzsche, would not hesitate to squish him like a worm.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

Secrets that reside in the mind of one person aren't really secrets. They're unspoken fears.

I have been gradually coming under the conviction, disturbing for a professional theorist, that there is no such thing as economics - there is only social science applied to economic problems.

I keep my clocks a little fast / so time won't take me by surprise.

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.