I Am Deeply Committed To The Cause

By Way Of Personal Instinct, I Have An Inherent Distaste For Grandiose Rhetorical Statements, Which Don't Have Any Substantive Dimension To Them

I Do Not Know Whether I Will Be In This Place For A Short Or A Long Time. That Is For Others To Decide. But What I Do Know Is That I Have No Intention Of Being Here For The Sake Of Just Being Here. Together With My Colleagues It Is My Intention To Make A Difference .

John Howard's Credibility On The Entire Iraq War Has Been Torpedoed By John Howard's Own Intelligence Agency.

I Deeply Believe That If The Australian Labor Party, A Party Of Which I Have Been A Proud Member For More Than 30 Years, Is To Have The Best Future For Our Nation, Then It Must Change Fundamentally Its Culture And To End The Power Of Faceless Men. Australia Must Be Governed By The People, Not By The Factions.

I Am Determined To Honour The Confidence Which Has Been Extended To Us By The People Of Our Great Land. And I Say To All Of Those Who Have Voted For Us Today, I Say To Each And Every One Of Them That I Will Be A Prime Minister For All Australians.