You've got to remember the Cold War was a very real thing then, so the relationship with the United States was very, very important. As was the relationship that I was developing with China: that was something I did very much. And they weren't conflicting things.

We [ with Brian Mulroney and Rajiv Gandhi] went to the meeting in Canada [the 1987 Vancouver CHOGM] and I said to them there that sanctions weren't working; they were just being busted. And it did seem to me that one way that we could bring the apartheid regime down would be if we did mount an effective investment sanction.

She [ Elizabeth II] is, you know, "Do-what-you're-told, Lady". But in the Commonwealth, she is much more than just a figurehead.

[ Rajiv Gandhi] was such an infinitely more attractive leader than his mother.

I respected [Margaret Thatcher] enormously. She had great integrity in that respect.

By 1990, no Australian child will be living in poverty.

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.