Tony Abbott Quotes

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Tony Abbott

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 4, 1957

I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.

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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.

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I'm not running for canonisation.

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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

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To move past fear is a cliche.

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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.

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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.

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The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother's convenience.

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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.

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

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Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

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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.

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I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get.

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

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

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

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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.'

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The truth is I try to take people as I find them.

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

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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.

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