If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

Politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers, and maddies.

Well, Australians should speak for the national interests of Australia, and whatever role former Australian prime ministers may have, one of the things you do is speak frankly about the country as you see the country's best interests, you know?

No choice we can make as a nation lies between our history and our geography. We can hardly change either of them. They are immutable. The only choice we can make as a nation is the choice about our future.

Nobody wants to have in their CV in the upper echelons of the American economic family that they nationalised major banks.