“Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of ou...” — Jay Weatherill Quote

“Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.”

“I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.”

“We need to get back to the concept of taking the community with us.”

“By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands.”

“The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.”

“Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.”

“These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow.”

“The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.”

“I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more.”

“I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.”

“I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.”

“If I know I'm going to be in a little different system, I'm 39, I can plan for that; we can plan for that. Doing nothing, the status quo, is going to guarantee cuts for current seniors... reforming the system is the only way you shore it up.”