The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency for human beings to try to classify. We all have this classification urge - so and so is such and such, that person is in that camp - but look, most sophisticated people defy stereotype.