Tony Abbott Quotes
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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 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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I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
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In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.
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It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.
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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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We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
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Climate change is crap.
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The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
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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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My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.
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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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The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.
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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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I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
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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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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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Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage.
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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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I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
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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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To move past fear is a cliche.