Jay Weatherill Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Our commitment to defence goes beyond this. It's a long-term commitment to make SA the home for Australian defence. It's a commitment to providing the right infrastructure and the right people.”

“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.”

“Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.”

“I believe that investing in our children's development from the earliest age is the single most important contribution we can make to the health and wellbeing of our citizens, their capacity and the future prosperity of our state.”

“If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.”

“I have learned to not worry about things I can't control.”

“I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities.”

“We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.”

“We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time.”

“I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.”