Tony Abbott Quotes

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

Climate change is crap.

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

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

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

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

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

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

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

I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage.

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

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

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

I think that the best things that governments can do for productivity is not whack on new taxes and, if we can get institutions like schools and hospitals functioning better, well that's obviously good for the overall productiveness of our society.

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.

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.

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

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.

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

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

There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.

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

I'm not running for canonisation.

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

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

While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.

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

I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

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

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.

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.

I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.

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

To move past fear is a cliche.

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

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

You cannot win an election without a fight

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

Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be considered progressive, on other issues might be thought of as being moderate, on other issues might be thought of as being rather forthright.