Tony Abbott Quotes
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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 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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When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.
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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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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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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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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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I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
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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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The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.
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There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.
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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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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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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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To move past fear is a cliche.
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To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.
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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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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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You cannot win an election without a fight.
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If you don't want to work weekends, don't.
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I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.