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

I think Australians are rightly suspicious of people who will try and use religion for another end. I don't think that's right and I don't think it should be done, but I think it should inform values, and it does.

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

Businessmen are always trying to advance their business interests, but they are not running for Prime Minister.

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.

You find actually over the years that you get attributed with a lot of things you didn't do and you don't get reported on a lot of things you did do and I must say, when I read some of these things I wonder where the journalists get them from. They generally speak to somebody who's spoken to somebody who was down the back of a pub who heard the barman say, and gradually finds its way into magazines or articles but no, that's not the case.