104 Quotes by Julia Gillard

I’m angry and I understand why Australians paying mortgages are angry.

I found Chancellor Merkel’s frankness admirable. When I met with her at this G20 meeting, with deep cynicism she described how for photos Germans no longer said ‘cheese’. Instead they would grit their teeth and say ‘Greeeece’.

I was not going to stand before the nation as prime minister and cry for myself. I was not going to let anyone conclude that a woman could not take it. I was not going to give any bastard the satisfaction. I was going to be resilient one more time.

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

Long gone were the days when, for an individual, a second-class education was a ticket to a secure, full-time menial job. In the 21st-century economy, with its new technology, many of those jobs had been destroyed. That second-class education was more likely to precede a marginalised life with no continuing work.

Indigenous children, children from the poorest of homes, can succeed to the highest of standards if we, the adults, are prepared to do everything necessary to get them a great education.

Nurture your sense of self, who you are in your own eyes, not as seen through the eyes of others.

Education equals economic growth.

If you believe, as I do, that merit is equally distributed between the sexes, then any result that isn't around half and half should be troubling.