I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected. Alexander Downer Read Quote
I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don’t respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all. Alexander Downer Read Quote
So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish. Alexander Downer Read Quote
Well, I’m not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it’s in Bahasa. But of course that’s not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria. Alexander Downer Read Quote
Well, it’s a – I don’t want to disappoint you, but it’s a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters. Alexander Downer Read Quote
Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution. Alexander Downer Read Quote
My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives. Alexander Downer Read Quote
Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I’m asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise. Alexander Downer Read Quote
If people are concerned about my house and where I live again it’s much more of a reflection on them than it is on me. Alexander Downer Read Quote
I’m not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future. Alexander Downer Read Quote
