The death of Malcolm Fraser underwrites a great loss to Australia... I always thought Malcolm would be around a lot longer. I must say, I wished he had been.

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.

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true.

The intellectual scholars who keep saying 'this is wrong' and 'that is wrong', are neither scholars nor intellectuals. In reality, they are more ignorant than the layman.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.

I wanted to look at how people deal with death. Why is Henry Kissinger not in jail and Charles Manson is?

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.

I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff.

Being optimistic is like a muscle that gets stronger with use. Makes it easier when the tough times arrive. You have to change the way you think in order to change the way you feel.