Tony Abbott Quotes
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Once people come to Australia, they join the team.
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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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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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The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.
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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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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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I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.
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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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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
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Climate change is crap.
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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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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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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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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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Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...
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It is a very heavy responsibility to be a prime-minister to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.
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What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
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Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
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It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.
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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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Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.
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The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.
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I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had.