There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

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.

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

Life is there to attain Liberation while going through the experience of it. It should not be ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal, ’ it should be ‘normal’.

Life imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.

Strength is not determined by the looks but through action.

Monastic life thus became a living protest against the secularization of Christianity, against the cheapening of grace.

Within every man and woman is a force that directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used, it can heal every affliction and ailment we may have.

I don't really have a process. I just start working and keep going until it's done.

There is no real answer [to the U.S. economic crisis] but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.

For it is not the shape, but their use, that makes them angels.

I still live my life the way that I want to live it, and people are very respectful of my space, but they also want to chat, and I quite like chatting.