We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

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.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

what we are we potray that in our deeds.....

Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy.

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.

And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.