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I hate to spoil my own prospects, but I really don't respect the kiss-and-tell approach to public life at all, not at all.

From Alexander Downer

I think any good government will target on the finishing date, that is, the polling day and make sure that their strategy is strong and in place to get them successfully re-elected.

From Alexander Downer

Yeah, well I'm not aspiring to be the Prime Minister.

From Alexander Downer

Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write.

From Alexander Downer

So this is all part of a free society. People are entitled to hold whatever view they want, and the media can report things how they wish.

From Alexander Downer

Well, I'm not going to go into what the letter says, because the police are looking at that. But as you say it's in Bahasa. But of course that's not to suggest that the letter came from outside of Australia. It came from in Australia. It came from Victoria.

From Alexander Downer

Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.

From Alexander Downer

Sheik Hilaly is making a good contribution. He is making a good contribution.

From Alexander Downer

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

From Alexander Downer

Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.

From Alexander Downer

Alexander Downer

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