
We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

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

We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.

I'm not running for canonisation.

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

You cannot win an election without a fight.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.

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

Three days ago, Dana had been kidnapped by the Norse god Loki and trapped in the Greek Underworld.

I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door,

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited they are bounded by some lines of demarcation.

I don't bring religion into the square.

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

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

There will be no overall increase in the tax burden whatsoever.

No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.

A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.

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

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

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

Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax.

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

There are no factions in the Liberal Party.

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government's dead body, frankly. It just won't happen.

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

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.

No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions

I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

Middle income families with children are Australia's new poor

The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.

It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.

There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

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.

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

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

I can't promise that I won't continue to embarrass people.