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.

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.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

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

Solitude helps you to convert your time into the clarity of purpose.

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.

you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

That is NOT the arse of a £7million player!

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

The belief that society benefits from destruction is lunacy.