The one thing I've learned is that stuttering in public is never as bad as I fear it will be.
I can convert anyone.
Unless we confront our history, unless we deal with it and move forward, not with recrimination, and move forward then we're always going to have the problems.
Reconciliation will not work if it puts a higher value on symbolic gestures and overblown promises rather than the practical needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in areas like health, housing, education and employment.
You always felt not happy about things, but you just couldn't put your finger on what was going.
The Labor Party has always - always been praised as leaders. In fact, there's probably more books written about ALP leaders and the ALP people than the Libs or anyone else in Australian's history, but there was substance to it.
The Labor roots are very strong. Paul Keating, made a comment several years ago about looking at that dragging yourself out of poverty, dragging yourself out of that situation.
There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.
I think 3D is a great innovation for the film business. But I hope it's not the thing that kills the golden egg because what's happening now is every movie there's pressure from the studio to turn it into a 3D movie.
A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a large or a small number of urban quarters; as a federation of autonomous quarters. Each quarter must have its own center, periphery and limit. Each quarter must be a city within a city.
The real love is when you wish to give something and not to get.