Tony Abbott Quotes
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We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
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There are some issues where ministers should come and talk to the prime minister, if the prime minister hasn't already talked to them. Any issue which a minister thinks is going to be profoundly controversial, where we do not have a clear existing position, it is important that there be a conversation between the minister and the prime minister. I think they all understand that and I think it is working very well.
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It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.
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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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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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My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.
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The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
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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 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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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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We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
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If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.
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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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To move past fear is a cliche.
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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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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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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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For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
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Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage.
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I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.
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Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!
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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.
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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 am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.