Key quotes from NSW election

THE COMMENTS THAT MATTER FOLLOWING THE NSW ELECTION

NSW PREMIER MIKE BAIRD

"We sought a mandate to make NSW great and tonight the people of NSW have given us that mandate. Tonight they have chosen hope over fear".

OPPOSITION LEADER LUKE FOLEY

"We've gone from a rump in the state parliament to a real opposition. We now have a two-party system; we did not after the 2011 election. The next election is now winnable for Labor".

MR BAIRD ON HIS POWER SELL-OFF

"My call is not only to the upper house; it's to the leader of the opposition. They have a chance to support what the people of this state have done, and that's given us the mandate to get on with it."

MR FOLEY OPENS POSSIBILITY OF NSW LABOR CHANGING TACK TO SUPPORT THE PRIVATISATION OF ELECTRICITY ASSETS

"After an election, all policies are up for review."

SHADOW TREASURER MICHAEL DALEY

"They were allowed to skate through this time because they were not us. That won't work twice."

LABOR SENATOR SAM DASTYARI ON MARTIN FERGUSON AFTER THE FORMER LABOR MINISTER'S STINGING CRITICISM OF THE NSW LABOR PARTY'S CAMPAIGN

"(You) don't get a bigger rat."

FORMER NSW LABOR TREASURER MICHAEL EGAN ON THE ANTI-PRIVATISATION CAMPAIGN

"I was very disappointed by it. I would've thought the Labor Party had grown up on that issue."

MR DALEY COMES CLEAN

"We expected to be in opposition."

PRIME MINISTER TONY ABBOTT

"Mike stayed the course in the face of a concerted scare campaign by Labor. This result is unambiguously good news for the Liberal Party and for the people of NSW."

FEDERAL LABOR MP ANTHONY ALBANESE BEMOANS THE POPULARITY OF MIKE BAIRD, WHO BECAME PREMIER WHEN BARRY O'FARRELL RESIGNED OVER A $3000 BOTTLE OF WINE

"The Liberal Party is lucky that that bottle of Grange happened."

UPPER HOUSE GREENS MP JOHN KAYE

"If there is a majority (in the upper house) that is opposed to the privatisation of the wires and poles, they will not be privatised. That is how democracy works."

FORMER FEDERAL MP BRUCE BAIRD ON HIS SON

"I'm very proud of my son. I think he did a phenomenal job."

FOREIGN MINISTER JULIE BISHOP

"There are always lessons to be learned from every campaign, and no doubt the Liberal Party will be studying this very closely."