One is left with the thought that given the way we now abuse the ocean and abuse the climate that we are heading towards our own iceberg, which is looming on the horizon. It's not visible yet but it certainly exists there and it won't be my generation that has to deal with the fact that the world is not bountiful forever, that the ocean and the atmosphere are not free goods to be abused, that will have to feed these vast populations. That will be your generation.

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.

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

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

In the end, rational policy is always good.

Leadership is not about being nice. it's about being right and being strong

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