My fundamental interests are to preserve the good name and standing of this Australian Labor Party and to act in the national interest on behalf of the Australian Government.

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?

He believes that people have destroyed religion and religion has destroyed people. He says he believes in God, but he doesn't believe in people.

No matter how much you love someone, time heals your pain and your death wish.

Our own personal brand of courage - in relationships, in conflict, in our principles ­ - is as unique as our fingerprints.

To be calm is the highest achievement of the best of what you have.

That I make poetry and give pleasure - if I give pleasure - are because of you.

People associate clothes with actual behavior, and it's kind of crazy. If you get shot in some Levi's you don't go after Levi's. It's not the clothes. It's always the people.

Art is an adventure that never seems to end.

I hate to be treated as if I'm invisible. I get incensed when people talk across me or refuse to catch my eye in a restaurant or shop.

A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.

Admiration is the emotion furthest from understanding. ~Sosuke Aizen