My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

I think there's not much patience for organized labour period public or private sector.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services more than anyone they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.

If I have done the public any service it is due to my patient thought.

Parenting as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power entails lower status less power and less control of resources than paid work.

I think the destructive vicious negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country harder to attract decent people to run for public office.

Reality must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled.