Tony Abbott Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tony Abbott
Tony Abbott Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Tony Abbott on Wise Famous Quotes.
Abortion is the easy way out. It's hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.
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.
I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.
When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.
I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
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.
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.
You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.
Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it's not necessarily everyone's place to come to Australia.
We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.
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 shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.
It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.
The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.
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.
We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.
Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.
It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.
Although our powers are great, they are not unlimited they are bounded by some lines of demarcation.
Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.
We have already provided a strong humanitarian response to the problems in the Middle East and that response will be stronger within coming days.
No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
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.