I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world.

Anybody who achieves what Malcolm Fraser achieved in his life deserves respect as a quite extraordinary Australian.

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, 'Victory,' and walked off the field.

The G7, just a European centric show, an Atlantic show, is fundamentally finished.

The Labor Party is a party of conviction. The Liberal Party is a party of convenience.

In the end, rational policy is always good.