The one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel a darned-sight better about themselves because they made the decision to do what they've done, and I can say to you, we would feel a bloody darned sight better about ourselves once we get an opportunity to put this [vote on same-sex marriage] out there.

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.

The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.