Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!

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.

You could be the smartest person on earth, but nobody will care if you can’t carry yourself the right way.

It's harder to get hold of the world. It's harder to understand the world, to encompass the literature necessary for the information.

Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me, a gem.

You can't take up all the music bins at a CD retail outlet with Spice Girls CDs and leave nothing for the Joan Jett catalogue.

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

To be reborn, you have to die first.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and 90s music to Dave Matthews.

Following your heart means allowing the possibility of finding true love to be stronger than the fear of rejection.

If you want to fly with the eagles, don’t swim with the ducks!