Politicians Come In Three Varieties: Straight Men,

In The End, The Key Ingredient For Public Life Is Imagination. You Imagine Something Better, You Try To Bring The People With You.

For John Howard To Get To Any High Moral Ground He Would Have To First Climb Out Of The Volcanic Hole He's Dug For Himself Over The Last Decade. You Know, It's Like One Of Those Deep Diamond Mined Holes In South Africa, You Know, They're About A Mile Underground. He'd Have To Come A Mile Up To Get To Even Equilibrium, Let Alone Have Any Contest In Morality With Kevin Rudd.

One Tires Of Combat, Although I Can Still Throw A Punch, You Know.

The United States Being In Asia Is Unambiguously A Good Thing For The Region.

One Is Left With The Thought That Given The Way We Now Abuse The Ocean And Abuse The Climate That We Are Heading Towards Our Own Iceberg, Which Is Looming On The Horizon. It's Not Visible Yet But It Certainly Exists There And It Won't Be My Generation That Has To Deal With The Fact That The World Is Not Bountiful Forever, That The Ocean And The Atmosphere Are Not Free Goods To Be Abused, That Will Have To Feed These Vast Populations. That Will Be Your Generation.