Tony Abbott Quotes

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Tony Abbott

Profession : Politician

Birth : November 4, 1957

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

Tony Abbott

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

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

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

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

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

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

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There are no factions in the Liberal Party.

Tony Abbott

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

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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.

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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.

Tony Abbott