If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

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

I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.

No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.

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

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.

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.