Tony Abbott Quotes
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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 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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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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A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.
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The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
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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'm not running for canonisation.
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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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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.
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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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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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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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Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.
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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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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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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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I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
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So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.
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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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Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor.
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The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It’s to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won’t deliver it.
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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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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.