In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

Ladies and gentlemen it is with great sadness that I announce that I will resign as Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs. I am sad because I love this job. I'm totally dedicated to the work that we are doing in Australia's name around the world and I believe that we have achieved many good results for Australia and I'm proud of them.

I know people that I respect and admire and look up to who have had extra-marital affairs.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

The value of government to the people it serves is in direct relationship to the interest citizens themselves display in the affairs of state.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

While the wider global environment is worrying we are seeing some positive results in our economic affairs.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole but I don't watch politics for sport.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.