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.

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

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.

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

The United States being in Asia is unambiguously a good thing for the region.

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.

Good economics is good politics.