Tony Abbott Quotes
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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 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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The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.
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We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.
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There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.
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To move past fear is a cliche.
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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've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.
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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.
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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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We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
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I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
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You cannot win an election without a fight.
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We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
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I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.
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I'm confident that there are plenty of people who have the strength of character and the presence of mind to warn me of difficulties and alert me to opportunities.
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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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And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.
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The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
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Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.
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Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.
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No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.
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We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.
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For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.