All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

Defence is our best attack.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Inevitable is not the same as immediate, Sieh--and love does not mandate forgiveness.

There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.

The more I help out, the more successful I become. But I measure success in what it has done for the people around me. That is the real accolade.

I think that Superman is the pinnacle of the DC Universe. Our feeling always was that you need to get Superman right. That was also our goal. We didn't want to ignore that this universe exists.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

You must get courageous men, men of strong views and let them debate and argue with each other.

You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.