I love radio – its immediacy and especially its intimacy… it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can’t see it, but equally importantly it can’t see you. Malcolm Turnbull Read Quote
If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism. Malcolm Turnbull Read Quote
There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan. Malcolm Turnbull Read Quote
I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them… I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price. Malcolm Turnbull Read Quote
I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat. Malcolm Turnbull Read Quote
It’s really corny to say, but if you are happily married and have good kids, that is about 98 per cent of what you should be seeking to achieve. Malcolm Turnbull Read Quote
Anyone who thinks it’s smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty. Malcolm Turnbull Read Quote
Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex? Malcolm Turnbull Read Quote
Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are marrying less frequently and divorcing more often? Malcolm Turnbull Read Quote
So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances. Malcolm Turnbull Read Quote
