You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.

Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.

All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.

I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.

We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.

I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.

It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.

Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia.

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

I feel like I always have to have a song on my album that people can use in their weddings.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

If we could see that everything, even tragedy, is a gift in diguise, we would then find the best way to nourish the soul.

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears. Pass it on.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

Amongst the friends of Allah (Awliya), the Qur'an is considered as a love letter from Allah, which inevitably is read continuously to remind them of their Beloved.