We've got gays working there. If they can demonstrate long-term relationships we make same-sex benefits available just as we do with common-law marriages. Gays are productive people. Some fly airplanes some work in breweries.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked not to be endured with patient resignation.

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives because it isn't working for a lot of people particularly for a lot of women.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women's issues to the center of our foreign policy.

I have crushes on women all the time. I don't have intimate relationships with them but I find women beautiful.

I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day.

Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.

Intimacies between women often go backwards beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

Surely God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.