Tony Abbott Quotes
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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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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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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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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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It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.
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Climate change is crap.
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Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.
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My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.
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The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
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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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When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.
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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 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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The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.
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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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I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
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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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I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.
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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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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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For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
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If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.