Tony Abbott Quotes
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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.
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Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part 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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Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government.
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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 one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel a darned-sight better about themselves because they made the decision to do what they've done, and I can say to you, we would feel a bloody darned sight better about ourselves once we get an opportunity to put this vote on same-sex marriage out there.
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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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We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.
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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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Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor.
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And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.
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More excuses for more failures.
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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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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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There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
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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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When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.
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I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.
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I think we've produced a stronger prohibition on real racism, while maintaining freedom of speech in ordinary public discussion. So I'm very comfortable with where we're at. We're not dogmatic or impervious to a further argument, that's why we released it as an exposure draft rather than simply releasing it straight into the parliament.
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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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I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.
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Climate change is crap.