If the states and territories do not sign up to fundamental reform, then my message is equally simple: we will take this reform plan to the people at the next election - along with a referendum by or at that same election to give the Australian Government all the power it needs to reform the health system.

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.

Joseph Ratzinger

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

Jonathan Sacks

The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken - it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Friedrich Schiller

The science is clear that there is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere. What is not clear from the science is how much of that increase is caused by human activity and what also is not clear is what impact those increases have on the climatic cycle.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Well, clearly, for me in the immediate future, it is grappling, like so many other governors are grappling, with the economic woes of these states. We were all hoping to see some federal relief.

Jennifer Granholm

Who can be patient in extremes? Henry Vi

William Shakespeare

The next major explosion is going to be when genetics and computers come together. I'm talking about an organic computer - about biological substances that can function like a semiconductor.

Alvin Toffler

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Johann von Goethe

True happiness that stands the taste of time comes by recognizing and appreciating what we do possess.

Ogwo David Emenike

Obstinate people can be divded into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics,

Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.

Anne Wilson Schaef