“I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to hav...”

“Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger an...”

“My fundamental interests are to preserve the good name and standing of this Australian Labor Party and to act in the national inte...”

“Ladies and gentlemen, it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I a...”

“If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform pl...”

“These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the A...”

“I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just we...”

“I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.”

“I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? If I can give yo...”

“I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.”

“I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically...”

“We are quite open, however, to looking at acquisitions and there are opportunities that we periodically consider. and I think that...”