The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience..

Good economics is good politics..

In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better..

For John Howard to get to any high moral ground he would have to first climb out of the volcanic hole he's dug for himself over the last decade. You ….

I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for ….

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

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out..

You see, before I became prime minister, the Australian prime minister only attended ever two meetings in the world: the British Commonwealth Heads o….

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 ….

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours..

One tires of combat, although I can still throw a punch, you know..

Well, frenetic activity in the end suiting journos, running at the behest of little press secretaries does not pay off..

In the end, rational policy is always good..

The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished..

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage..

If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility..

If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Aus….

John Howard turned the prime ministership into something like a state police minister. He's at the scene of every crime, twice a day on radio, the gu….

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.

I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just….

We will not adopt the fantastic hypocrisy of modern conservatism which preaches the values of families and communities, while conducting a direct ass….