Tony Abbott Quotes
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Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government.
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Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!
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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 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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I've always been very wary of debates involving women.
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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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Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor.
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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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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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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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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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They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.
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I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.
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Today, we have got more excuses from the government.
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More excuses for more failures.
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It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.
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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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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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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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There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.
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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 want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.
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The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.