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

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.

Some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them.

I do not use psychiatric terms in my writing because the entrenched and developing behaviours were perfectly normal reactions to abnormal situations.

When your heart feels strangely warm, you’ve found your love

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen

Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

Phones are powerful at providing information.

Every journey to something is a journey away from something

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

If you don’t move, you get stale.

So long as there is one [person] who seeks employment and cannot find it, the hours of work are too long.