Tony Abbott Quotes
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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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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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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 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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To move past fear is a cliche.
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There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.
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The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.
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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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We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
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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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I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
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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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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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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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You cannot win an election without a fight.
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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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Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.
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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.
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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.