Tony Abbott Quotes
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The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.
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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 am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
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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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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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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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The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
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When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.
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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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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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Climate change is crap.
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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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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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My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.
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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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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 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 a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
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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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If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.
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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.