Tony Abbott Quotes
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And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.
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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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Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.
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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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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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Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.
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Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.
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Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?
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I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.
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We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.
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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 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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Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.
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Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.
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What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.
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People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.
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We will act to build a better world. We always have, we always will. We will act to lend a helping hand, not just here but wherever we humanly can.
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A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.
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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'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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There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.
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There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.
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Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.
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The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.