A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.

Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.

Business leaders must not cling to old ways of doing business, or allow inertia or complacency to prevent them from making the decisions that they will eventually be forced to make.

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

Fifty per cent of the public doesn't know what 'fifty per cent' means.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear.

While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

I never make a mistake on the first move!

The mathematician's best work is art, a high perfect art, as daring as the most secret dreams of imagination, clear and limpid. Mathematical genius and artistic genius touch one another.

All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

Comeback is a good word, man.

The highest form of worship is to find the least among you and treat them like Jesus.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.