Solutions will not be found while Indigenous people are treated as victims for whom someone else must find solutions.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

Life wasn't meant to be easy.

We are lagging far behind comparable countries in overcoming the disadvantages Indigenous people face.

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

I think the climate is too important to say we are going to wait until all our economic woes are over before we act effectively.

The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.

I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

If you're not failing 90% of the time, then you're probably not working on sufficiently challenging problems.

Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

Every Sherlock Holmes story has at least one marvelous scene.

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

You can stand me up at the gates of hell, but I won't back down.

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