One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know.

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.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

I have a decision to go, but I am not sure to choose which other prison on the earth.

ILikeThe WayThat when youTiltPoemsOn their sideTheyLook likeMiniatureCities FromA long wayAway. SkyscrapersMade outOfWords.

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.

You Americans, you have no idea how much your stuff infiltrates the rest of the world!

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

I hate to lend a book I love...it never seems quite the same when it comes back to me.

Thought = creation. If these thoughts are attached to powerful emotions (good or bad) that speeds the creation