The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

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.

You just can't have a position where some pumped up bunyip potentate dismisses an elected government.

If your presence doesn't work, neither will your word.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

I think we hear a lot of talk about college, and we don't hear about early education.

I'm funnier now because I'm braver and less full of hate, so everything is even more ridiculous than it was before.

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.

Tell me, and then again show me, so I can know.