Tony Abbott Quotes

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

Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.

We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.

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.

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

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

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

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

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.

No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.

Today, we have got more excuses from the government.

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

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

To move past fear is a cliche.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

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

It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.

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

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

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 choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.

I don't bring religion into the square.

Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.

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

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

We will act to build a better world. We always have, we always will. We will act to lend a helping hand, not just here but wherever we humanly can.

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

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

I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.

More excuses for more failures.

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

Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.

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

It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.

I'm still getting my exercise at five o'clock in the morning, that's good. So far I've managed to hold on to a bike ride on Saturday or Sunday morning, probably at least two weekends out of three.

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

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.

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.