you cannot maintain popular support for immigration policy, multiculturalism, unless you can control your borders.

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.

If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.

You can tell a lot about an area from its library, and I'd never discount the usefulness of town archives.

The nature of the world is inherently obvious, if you remain in a state of total psycho-physical oneness with whatever and all that presently arises.

Hope transforms pessimism into optimism. Hope is invincible.

The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.

I'm too much of a big kid.

The ultimate test of practical leadership is the realization of intended, real change that meets people's enduring needs.

He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.