Joe Hockey Quotes

I'm not going to count the dollars before they've come in.

I'm not as bearish as many others about China. Why? Because China must grow. So I am far more optimistic about China.

No matter what happens in the future, whether it is a Labor government or a Coalition government, whoever is in government is going to have to fix the budget.

Fiscal policy, monetary policy, they need to work together to try and raise the level of growth.

I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.

I will never ever support a people swap where you can send a 13 year old child, unaccompanied to a country without supervision. Never, it'll be over my dead body. How dare they.

The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases.

Everyone is a buyer, everyone's a potential purchaser and everyone's a potential vendor.

We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education.

In fact, in Parliament, I pointed out that Australians on average incomes would move into the second highest tax bracket in the next couple of years. That is going to slow down the Australian economy. It's bad for households.

As Australians, we must not leave our children worse off. That’s not fair. That is not our way.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.