“I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've g...” — John Howard Quote

“I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.”

“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.”

“On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent with the mainstream of the Republican Party in the United States and with many Democrats as well.”

“Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.”

“You have to recover the capacity to imagine yourself as an ideal and figure out how to project that into the world.”

“My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.”