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Children don't get cheaper when they turn six.
People learn from failure or from lack of success.
I've always been prepared to put my money where my mouth is.
I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.
We believe in the empowerment of women and we will not compromise in that goal.
Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia.
Everyone is a buyer, everyone's a potential purchaser and everyone's a potential vendor.
The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases.
The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.
If you hang around waiting for the right answer, you're going to be waiting all your life.
China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
As Australians, we must not leave our children worse off. That’s not fair. That is not our way.
Fiscal policy, monetary policy, they need to work together to try and raise the level of growth.
We know that it's hard enough being a teenager. It's particularly hard being a teenager who's coming out.
It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.
I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own.
The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty quickly.
Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.
you cannot maintain popular support for immigration policy, multiculturalism, unless you can control your borders.
Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!
I'm not as bearish as many others about China. Why? Because China must grow. So I am far more optimistic about China.
I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.
I'm sick of the cover-ups, I'm sick of the lies, and so are the bloody veterans, that come out daily of the department's mouth.
On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.
There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
Everyone's got different views. I think you're better off staying within the party and prosecuting those views than stepping out of it.
You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.
Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.
We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.
We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education.
When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
It's really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve.
Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.
While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage.
I respect every mother and I believe people are entitled to use whatever benefits, claims and entitlements, if you like, that are available to them
Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.
It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.
No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.
But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.
The royal commissions are successful and effective when they have a focused terms of reference and can do the job quickly and report. And then action can be taken.
All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.
If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Nobel Prize winning genius, we will not let you in.
I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.
I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.
In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.
It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.