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.

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

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.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.

Thing to know about the Reaches....It’s always trying to kill you. Even the empty places between the stars."Asher Corsair, Allies and Enemies: Rogues

Our disappointment sits between us.

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.

In 1993, I retired from the Art Ensemble of Chicago to devote myself full time to Buddhist studies and to the practice of Aikido.

Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.

It's also very important to make sure that the main character and the player are completely in synch.

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.