I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

The fact is Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together.

Australia without the Irish would be unthinkable... unimaginable... unspeakable.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

You see, psychologically, Australia must understand it has to live in the region around it. Australia must find its security in Asia; it cannot find its security from Asia.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

In this, our age of infamy Man's choice is but to be A tyrant, traitor, prisoner: No other choice has he.

Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

One very clear impression I had of all the Beautiful People was their prudence. It may be that they paid for their own airline tickets, but they paid for little else.

We belittle God when we go through the outward motions of worship and take no pleasure in His person.

names are a way to keep people in your mind

Love manufactures every man into a poet while the fever lasts.

A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.

There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.