No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

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

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.

Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be considered progressive, on other issues might be thought of as being moderate, on other issues might be thought of as being rather forthright.