“There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything...” — Malcolm Turnbull Quote

“There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.”

“I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.”

“Mitt Romney speaking to a $50,000-a-plate Republican fundraiser says he doesn't have to worry about the 47 per cent of Americans who don't pay tax. He was not counting on the smart phone recording his speech and then posting it on YouTube.”

“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”

“People get up and say, 'I didn't prepare a speech because I didn't think I would win.' Well, that's dumb.”

“I love to write songs, but they don't come easy to me - I spend a lot of time writing really dumb stuff that I have to look at the next day and think, 'God, what was I thinking?' That's my process, is just to go through a lot of dumb stuff and hope that, after a lot of hard work, I'll find a good idea.”