Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
The future will either be green or not at all.
The whole world is moving to Kyoto II, but Australia is not there on the same basis because it is now seen as a delinquent country. Prime Minister Howard has led a delinquency because we signed up, and then we reneged on it. The world will be expecting that next time around as well.
There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
That's standard for being a Green: standing up for a long-term future, which is a much more clear view of where the world is going to and where this country should be going there than either of the old parties have.
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God - by which I mean accepting all that I don't know.
I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
