Tony Abbott Quotes
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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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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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I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.
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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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We are sticking with the plan. We have a plan to get taxes down, to get regulation down, to get productivity up, to create jobs, to reduce taxes, to boost prosperity. The plan is working and we are sticking with it.
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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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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 cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
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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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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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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 thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.
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We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
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The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
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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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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'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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Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.
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To move past fear is a cliche.
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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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You cannot win an election without a fight.
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If you don't want to work weekends, don't.
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I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.