Tony Abbott Quotes

Abortion is the easy way out. It's hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.

More excuses for more failures.

Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that

Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.

I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.

The climate change argument is absolute crap

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

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

To move past fear is a cliche.

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.

Victory is within our ready grasp ... We are in reach of a famous victory

When the world is in trouble, Australia responds. Australia is a good, global citizen.

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.

Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.

We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.

The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.

Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

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

Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it's not necessarily everyone's place to come to Australia.

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.

I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

Climate change is crap.

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.