We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.

The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

The world will not wait for us.

My point was that the war was intrinsically wrong, and as a result of our participation we haven't improved Australia's security but created a greater danger at home and abroad.

I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

We will not allow to become a political issue in this country the question of Asianisation.

I really had very little to do with Pierre Trudeau. He was off the scene very soon.

The biggest risk in life is not the failure, but the failure to get an education.

All you need to get by in this world is the memory of love

Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.

Don't become a fashion victim is what I'm trying to say.

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

You have to draw on your unconscious when you make a film - you can't worry about whether it's costing a lot of money.

Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities.

Racism and sexism are not "problems" or "topics." They are ways of defining reality and living our lives that most of us learned along with learning how to tie our shoes and how to drink from a cup.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil