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"I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view."
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"The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself."

"The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in."

"Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself."

"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."

"A house in the country is not the same as a country house."
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"I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police."

"This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief."

"I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty."

"I'm not running away from the fact that I had previously said I did not contemplate a major increase, and that was a fair statement of the Government's state of mind at the time I made that."

"We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life."

"Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China."

"It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia."
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