I've always held the view that great states need strategic space. I mean, George Washington took his space from George III. Britain took it from just about everybody. Russia took all of Eastern Europe. Germany's taken it from everywhere they can, and China will want its space too.

I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

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

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

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

If this Government cannot get the adjustment, get manufacturing going again, and keep moderate wage outcomes and a sensible economic policy, then Australia is basically done for. We will end up being a third rate economy... a banana republic.

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