If you complain, you’re ‘playing the victim’; if you don’t complain, you are a victim.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

I know people are looking at whats happening in Washington and then they also look at events in Europe, in Greece and Portugal and other places and worry about that.

All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.

Through hard work and education, we can deliver a strong economy and opportunity for all.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

In politics there's never a magic wand.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

Try harder every day to be better than the day before.

Life can only give you what you give back to it, and it all begins with the right attitude.

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

When you go to other parks, they hang banners for the wild-card or Eastern Division or Western Division champions. Around here, they don't hang anything unless its for being world champions.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

Nine-tenths of discipline is having the patience to do things right.

Nobody can teach you love. Love you have to find yourself, within your being, by raising your consciousness to higher levels.

[Invading Iraq] will unite the entire Arab world against the West.

I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.