The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

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.

To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing.

There is never a lost opportunity in business

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.

I have a belief that if I wear my placenta in a necklace, there’s a possibility of me gaining second sight - like being psychic. I would be wearing it whether or not I was in the public eye.

The reality is that it is mainly a Republican scandal for several reasons.

Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.