Tony Abbott Quotes
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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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We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.
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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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We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.
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You cannot win an election without a fight.
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I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
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The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
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When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.
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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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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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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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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 think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
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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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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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To move past fear is a cliche.
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I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.
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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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If you don't want to work weekends, don't.
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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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It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.
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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.