The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.

If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Nobel Prize winning genius, we will not let you in.

I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own.

People learn from failure or from lack of success.

There is nothing more important in business or politics than a deal is a deal.

The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!