The democracy process provides for political and social change without violence.
As I'm lying there at my funeral I would hope to hear somebody say, “Look, he's still moving!
Our system of government is one of checks and balances. It requires compromise. . compromise between the Executive and the Parliament, compromise between one House and another, compromise between the States and the Commonwealth and compromise between groups of persons with legitimate interests and other groups with other legitimate interests. There is room for compromise. . indeed demand for it. . in a system of checks and balances.
If you want to save, put money into superannuation, you will never find a better savings vehicle.
This is not the kind of country where you would feel comfortable if you were opposed to democracy, parliamentary law, independent courts and so I would say to people who don't feel comfortable with those values there might be other countries where they'd feel more comfortable with their own values or beliefs.
When you're looking for votes, you are looking for votes from everybody, particularly the powerful.
The prudential regulation that I have put in place has been absolutely critical. The fiscal policy which we have put in place has been absolutely critical and if people looked at Australia now turn its back on economic reform, which of course industrial relations rollback or throwback would be, let me tell you, that would really start affecting confidence.
We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emotion for stimulation.
That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality.
I never really made any money and it certainly cost me more to take photographs than I got for them.
I will never fit in because I was not meant to