Compassion is not a dirty word.. it's time we rehabilitated compassion into the national political vocabulary of this great nation of ours.

We are moving toward recognition of the first Australians in the Australian constitution.

Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

It is unlikely that you'll have anything emerge from MEF (Major Economies Forum) by way of detailed programmatic specificity.

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

Of course I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls

People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.

By way of personal instinct, I have an inherent distaste for grandiose rhetorical statements, which don't have any substantive dimension to them

There's nothing like having a bit of somebody else in you.

Would you like to work at home and earn $150 per hour with data entry?

The trouble with parents is they remember the things you don’t want them to remember. Then the things you want them to remember, they forget." Kosi Kamsi

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

I would have chosen any other than this for my prison. A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.

If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope.

Overall, vampires are a much more refined people; vampinese are much more barbarian and monstrous.

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.