Malcolm Turnbull
I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.Collection: Believe
I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.Collection: Moral
People learn from failure or from lack of success.Collection: People
This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.Collection: Hurt
It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.Collection: Children
We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.Collection: Fire
There is nothing more important in business or politics than a deal is a deal.Collection: Important
I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.Collection: Strong
I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own.Collection: Thinking
I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.Collection: Believe
What we're seeing at the moment is people being radicalised or adopting Islamist, murderous Islamist ideology very, very quickly so that you have people that are not on the counterterrorism radar screen who then often, as a result of mental illness, will then attach themselves to this murderous ideology and then act very quickly.Collection: People
Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.Collection: Government
We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.Collection: Numbers
While our energy efficiency is improving, there is a very high correlation, almost near perfect correlation, between GDP growth, and energy usage.Collection: Gdp
The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact – based indeed on solid journalistic work.Collection: Independent
The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.Collection: Country
In terms of our region, what we need to ensure is that the rise of China [is] conducted in a manner that does not disturb the security and the relative harmony of the region upon which China's prosperity depends. Now - now, that requires careful diplomacy, it requires balancing.Collection: Doe
The Liberal Party is and always has been an amalgam between the conservative and the liberal with a small L traditions. And so from time to time people will see it emphasising one more than the other. I think it is genuinely an amalgam between the two.Collection: Party
One of the most important things for a country, particularly when it's seeking to attract long-term capital in big risky projects that are going to have a payback over many years if not decades, is to be seen as being a predictable environment where tax changes will be few. But if they are going to come about they'll come about in a way that you know is predictable, understandable.Collection: Country
People invest in companies in order to get a share of the profit that company will make. If the Government increases its share of the profits, potential profits, at the expense of the owners of the company, the shareholders, then that makes investment in that company less attractive.Collection: Government
You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.Collection: Horse
Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.Collection: Views
I'm sick of the cover-ups, I'm sick of the lies, and so are the bloody veterans, that come out daily of the department's mouth.Collection: Lying
Everyone's got different views. I think you're better off staying within the party and prosecuting those views than stepping out of it.Collection: Party
you cannot maintain popular support for immigration policy, multiculturalism, unless you can control your borders.Collection: Support
You cannot keep on saying oh, you know, talking about disrespecting women as just being politically correct or it's not a big deal or brushing things off. You've got to be aware of it.Collection: Talking
Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.Collection: Looks
The royal commissions are successful and effective when they have a focused terms of reference and can do the job quickly and report. And then action can be taken.Collection: Jobs