Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.
The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life. . . A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. . . Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
I think the whole nostalgia for the forty year gap for [Sylvester] Stallone was bigger than the movie [Creed], but it's good because the movie still gets recognized with Stallone's involvement. I'm sure the director [Ryan Coogler] is still proud of his film, but it's very hard to nominate a director.
We can`t win - if we nominate someone - if we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, we`re going to be fighting against each other all the way to November [2016]. We will never win that way.