Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.

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.

I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak.

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.

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

There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.