Tony Abbott Quotes
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I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
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My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.
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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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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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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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Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government.
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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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Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor.
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It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.
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I've always been very wary of debates involving women.
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More excuses for more failures.
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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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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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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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They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.
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I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.
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Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.
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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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Today, we have got more excuses from the government.
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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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In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later.
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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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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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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.