Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.
The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.
There are no factions in the Liberal Party
I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.
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.
When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.
There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.
What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.
Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.
I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.
I'm not running for canonisation.
I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?
A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.
A government that says what it means, and means what it says.
There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.
In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.
I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.
I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had
A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.
There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.
Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...
