I Try To Use The Australian Idiom

The Lesson Of The Federation Should Be That The Lesson Is Over. Australia Must Have A New Idea Of Itself. We Have To Strike Out In A New Direction, In A New Way, Armed With Our Own Self-regard, Our Own Confidence And Fully Appreciating Our Own Uniqueness. All Other Roads Will Lead Us Into The Shadow Of Great Powers.

I Think The Australian People Are Very Conscientious. During The 1980s And 1990s We Proved They Will Respond Conscientiously To Necessary Reforms. They Mightn't Like Them But They'll Accept Them. But Reforms Have To Be Presented In A Digestible Format.

Politicians Come In Three Varieties: Straight Men, Fixers, And Maddies.

In The End, The Key Ingredient For Public Life Is Imagination. You Imagine Something Better, You Try To Bring The People With You.

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 Know, It's Like One Of Those Deep Diamond Mined Holes In South Africa, You Know, They're About A Mile Underground. He'd Have To Come A Mile Up To Get To Even Equilibrium, Let Alone Have Any Contest In Morality With Kevin Rudd.