Tony Abbott Quotes
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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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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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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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The argument behind climate change is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.
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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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A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.
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No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.
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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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I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table in the prime ministerial office in many discussions. The difference between being a senior minister and the prime minister is that ultimately the buck does stop with the prime minister and in the end the prime minister has to make those critical judgement calls and that's the big difference.
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Once people come to Australia, they join the team.
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Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.
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Climate change is crap.
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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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Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.
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Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?
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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
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We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.
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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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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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Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor.
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
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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.