Tony Abbott Quotes

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Tony Abbott

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 4, 1957

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.

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Climate change is crap.

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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.

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Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

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Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

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

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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.

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

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If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

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

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

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The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it.

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

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I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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