Tony Abbott Quotes
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Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government.
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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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The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.
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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.
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I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
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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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I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'
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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 want to be a very good friend to Indonesia, but there are some things which are non-negotiable. Border protection is just non-negotiable. Maintaining a strong security network is just non-negotiable. I think the Indonesians understand that.
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There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.
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We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
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In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.
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We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.
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No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.
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It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.
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You cannot win an election without a fight.
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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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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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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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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.
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I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
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I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.
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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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I've always been very wary of debates involving women.