We have a prime minister, I'm the foreign minister, I'm trying to get on with the job of doing Australia's foreign policy.

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.

Would you like to work at home and earn $150 per hour with data entry?

When life gives you a lemon, chuck it right back.... and add a few lemons of your own.

Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly.

There are more things to admire in men than to despise.

Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

Youth, have no pity; leave no farthing here For age to invest in compromise and fear.

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.

No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.

I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.