Tony Abbott Quotes
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I've always been very wary of debates involving women.
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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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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.
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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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Today, we have got more excuses from the government.
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They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.
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Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor.
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Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!
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What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
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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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We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.
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There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.
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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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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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We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
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Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.
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More excuses for more failures.
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This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.
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Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.
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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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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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We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
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And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.