Quotes by Lionel Murphy

• Where there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.
• There are no insuperable constitutional difficulties.
• The people of Australia would be staggered to learn that Australia has no national development plan.
• The Menzies Government, by its participation in the plans for the development of other nations, can see the virtue of planning for them but apparently cannot see the virtue of a plan for Australia.
• The Australian people want to help build this country into a great nation. This budget... has not realized the capacity of the Australian people. It has underestimated them. It has let us down.
• It is a great privilege for any man to become a member of the Senate.
• We must have as clear a picture as we can of the Australia that we want to achieve at the end of that time.
• We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed.