Quotes By Jay Weatherill

Everybody has to make their own decisions about how they choose to behave.

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.

You don't get unity by ignoring the questions that have to be faced.

We need to get back to the concept of taking the community with us.

There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.

My government, you can be assured, will be less focused on personalities. It is about treating people with respect. I think complaining about the community not being able to see the wisdom of our ideas is the wrong approach.

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.

The two defining issues of this century are both universal but felt locally: the global water crisis and the resources boom.

People want the freedom. They want to be able to shop. If you don't like the shop trading hours and you're a shop owner, you don't have to open.

We've been very patient over the years but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reset the rules for the River Murray and we're determined not to squander that opportunity.

Well, there are different levels of love.

Obviously any export of uranium to India could only occur within an appropriate international framework to be negotiated by the commonwealth government.

You'll be much more successful if you follow your dreams and follow your passions.

Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.

By and large we have got to find the good leaders to work with to make sure that we build the strength in these communities. Simply issuing edicts from Canberra isn't going to solve issues on the APY lands.

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

I want to make sure we are presenting to the South Australian people a Government that is open and accountable. I want to make sure that we maintain public confidence in government at all levels.

If we wish our state's growth to continue, then our future will increasingly be with industries that require a highly skilled and technically proficient workforce.

South Australia has transformed. There has been a range of changes to our economy over the past 10 years in which we have genuinely set ourselves up for the future. I think we have to start behaving like that's real and project a quiet confidence in the future of our state.

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.

A stronger focus on quality public policymaking and less distraction of personalities would be a sufficient and important contribution I can make.

I believe good governments have nothing to hide. We want to ensure we maintain confidence in our public institutions.

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.

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.

Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

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.

Defence is our best attack.

We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government and working with industry.