Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished.

There is a very special place in the Australian psyche for sport. It is one of the pillars of the Australian way of life. You don't really understand what makes the Australian nation tick unless you understand the great affection Australians have for sport.

Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

I accept that climate change is a challenge, I accept the broad theory about global warming. I am sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy predictions.

Nobody should claim that the war [in Iraq] is over. But certainly it can be said that the regime is finished.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.