Our job as a government is to start with the great underpinnings of our current economic growth - particularly defence and mining - and build on these.
Partisanship particularly increased after the 1994 elections and then the appearance of the first unified Republican government since the 1950s.
It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.
What celebrities hope is that people identify not so much that they're particularly special or different, but they identify with them. We represent life in general, the guy who does whatever.
I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.
It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.
In Congress, I'll work hard to encourage investment in education, particularly with respect to technology and bridging the digital divide.
Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.
There's some irony in playing a journalist after some of the stuff that has been written about me, but it's a great profession, particularly investigative journalism.
I love music, particularly Radiohead, TV on the Radio, The XX and Tribes - they're a great new band from Camden and well worth a look at.
Acting's not particularly complicated. But the great thing is you can step into somebody else's shoes without dealing with the consequences. It's very therapeutic in that way.
Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.
TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.
I'm not particularly affable in real life, I have to tell you. I've got that side to me, of course, but that's not all I am.
I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel.
As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.
