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Tony Abbott

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.

— Tony Abbott people

I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

— Tony Abbott life

We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice.

— Tony Abbott people

I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.

— Tony Abbott money

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

— Tony Abbott want

Climate change is crap.

— Tony Abbott change

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

— Tony Abbott growth

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.

— Tony Abbott people

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.

— Tony Abbott life

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

— Tony Abbott marriage

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.

— Tony Abbott education

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

— Tony Abbott art

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

— Tony Abbott man

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.

— Tony Abbott living

For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

— Tony Abbott time

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

— Tony Abbott art

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

— Tony Abbott people

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

— Tony Abbott joy

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.

— Tony Abbott 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.

— Tony Abbott people

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

— Tony Abbott

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today.

— Tony Abbott men

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

— Tony Abbott life

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

— Tony Abbott men

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

— Tony Abbott politics

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the seagull syndrome - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.

— Tony Abbott people

Im focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I dont respond to gossip.

— Tony Abbott focus

Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes; compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.

— Tony Abbott men

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