When you're looking for votes, you are looking for votes from everybody, particularly the powerful.

Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.

This is not the kind of country where you would feel comfortable if you were opposed to democracy, parliamentary law, independent courts and so I would say to people who don't feel comfortable with those values there might be other countries where they'd feel more comfortable with their own values or beliefs.

If you want to save, put money into superannuation, you will never find a better savings vehicle.

Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.

As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!

The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place has been absolutely critical and if people looked at Australia now turn its back on economic reform, which of course industrial relations rollback or throwback would be, let me tell you, that would really start affecting confidence.