We're not planning for the future. If we continue to spend ourselves into oblivion we are going to destroy this nation.

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

We know that when people are safe in their homes they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

Up against the corporate government voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.

All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak and not always with my advance approval and I expect that to continue in the future.

We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us but rather it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves to our children and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.