There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.
I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...
And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.
Fate does not play jokes.
Well, Michael, we will be telling the people of Australia in good time before the next election exactly what they can expect from us. No surprises, no excuses. They will be our watch words going into the election and afterwards, should we form a government.
I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.
There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.
So much had already been done in space before that, it had all been documented and there were no real surprises in store for us.
One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either.
I demand pretty aggressive goal setting and a commitment to measured progress towards those goals because I don't like surprises. I don't even like good surprises.
The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.