Tony Abbott Quotes
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I can't promise that I won't continue to embarrass people.
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Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.
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Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be considered progressive, on other issues might be thought of as being moderate, on other issues might be thought of as being rather forthright.
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What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor parties. The precise mechanisms will evolve over time, but we certainly intend to keep the minor parties and the independents very much in the loop. We have to if we want our legislative agenda to have a reasonable chance of success and that's what we intend to do.
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We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.
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Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.
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I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.
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I don't bring religion into the square.
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While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.
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In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.
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I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has accelerated the political process. The rise of social media, in addition to talkback, I think has intensified the political process.
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Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.
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When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.
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Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.
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The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.
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I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.
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There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.
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The media - and I'm not blaming them - obviously like to seize on the differences between people and, sure, there are some senior members of the government who are in a slightly different philosophical space to mine. But do not underestimate the substantial single-mindedness of this government.
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I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.
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I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.
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We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.
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I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.
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There are no factions in the Liberal Party.
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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.