My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

I will go to the next election saying to Australians vote for me vote for the Liberal Party and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about and if you don't know what your vision is go at somebody else.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people not chairs and positions.

In politics merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised like a target to a position to be fired at.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats we will stop telling the truth about them.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems I would suggest you do two things: first while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.