We want our leaders to be fair dinkum, as much among us as above us.

Communication is the conduit of leadership from the Prime Minister down to the leading hand of a small group of council workers fixing the roads. Leadership uncommunicated is leadership unrequited!

Let's start therefore with a universal truth: leaders are fundamentally accountable.

Our vision is to look through the eyes of our kids. We are a lucky, peaceful nation. We are an unselfish people. That's one of our proudest national attributes.

Leaders who fail to appreciate this fundamental precept of accountability must also fail to muster the profound commitment true leadership demands.

I must say that part of our national wealth is not only the nation's people but those people who lead them.

Older people often mistakenly consider that the young people do not care about their country, but the reverse is actually true.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

We may see the small value God has for riches, by the people he gives them to.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

You have to let the people vote when it comes to a new constitution.

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.

This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet