Tony Abbott Quotes
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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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Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
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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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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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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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Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.
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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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The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.
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Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.
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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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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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If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?
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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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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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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 also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you've paid.
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We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.
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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
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The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
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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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Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
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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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No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.