There is an understandable aversion to risk, and a reluctance to plan too far ahead: the modern electorate wants instant gratification and simplistic, populist solutions.

...the opportunity for overthrowing capitalism has passed – Labor governments are the hope of the world.” From that time his commitment to the ALP was unquestioned.

Reminded that the Commonwealth was already involved in pre-school and university education, Chifley replied: “That’s different – they’re for kids before they’ve got souls and after they’ve lost them.

It is a rather lamentable fact that few can call upon courage with the expediency they can fear.

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

Many times I can see a solution to something differently and quicker than other people. I see the end zone and say 'This is where I want to go.'

I can't think of a greater single vehicle to goodness and a better world than if everyone battled their own natures

From labor there shall come forth rest.

The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film

To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own way.

Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

The main thing in my life...is that I really need to go home and practice.