104 Quotes by Julia Gillard

There are some things that can't be measured.

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers.

Our future growth relies on competitiveness and innovation, skills and productivity... and these in turn rely on the education of our people.

I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism,

In politics there's never a magic wand.

The cartoon absolutely captures something that acres and acres of copy can't. And even photographs can't.

Australians can trust me to get the job done. They can have the confidence that in the heart of the circumstances I will win through in their interests no matter how relentlessly negative the leader of the opposition is.

Try harder every day to be better than the day before.

So in many ways for me, having lived through what I've lived through, and endured what I've endured, I've got more confidence that I can do the next bit - and there's something sustaining about that.