Tony Abbott Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Tony Abbott Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Tony Abbott Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

1

You try turning up in America without documents, withou

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you‘ll be treated as very, very much illegal.

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2

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

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3

Climate change is crap.

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4

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.

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5

There are no factions in the Liberal Party.

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6

Well, I’m not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

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7

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they’re all using wireless technology, and we shouldn’t assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.

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8

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

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9

I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don’t know that they can be recognised as marriage.

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10

You cannot win an election without a fight.

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11

I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that’s obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.

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12

I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.

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13

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that’s their choice.

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14

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

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15

I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it’s terrific stress release.

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16

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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17

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the ‘seagull syndrome‘ – we fly in, scratch around and fly out.

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18

I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.

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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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20

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

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21

The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

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22

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

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