Tony Abbott Quotes
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The measure in the budget in relation to parental leave pay is based on a simple proposition. Most women across Australia have access to one scheme funded by the taxpayer. Some women have access to two schemes and that's great.
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I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.
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There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.
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I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... it their virginity is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.
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I'm still getting my exercise at five o'clock in the morning, that's good. So far I've managed to hold on to a bike ride on Saturday or Sunday morning, probably at least two weekends out of three.
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The Liberal Party has dealt with the spill motion and now this matter is behind us, we think that when you elect a government, when you elect a prime minister, you deserve to keep that government and that prime minister until you have a chance to change your mind.
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The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.
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I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak.
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Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
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Once people come to Australia, they join the team.
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We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.
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Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.
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Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.
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If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.
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You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.
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Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
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Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.
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A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.
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I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.
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We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.
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I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.
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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
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If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
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A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.