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“Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Smart #Cutting #Thinking
“I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Believe #Commitment #Truthful
“I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Jobs #Thinking #Australia
“Honest people, knowledgeable people, really well-informed people can have very different views about what the right measures are on national security.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Views #People #Different
“If Margaret Thatcher took climate change seriously and believed that we should take action to reduce global greenhouse emissions, then taking action and supporting and accepting the science can hardly be the mark of incipient Bolshevism.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Climate #Action #Accepting
“People invest in companies in order to get a share of the profit that company will make. If the Government increases its share of the profits, potential profits, at the expense of the owners of the company, the shareholders, then that makes investment in that company less attractive.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Government #Order #People
“My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Passion #Commitment #Australia
“One of the most important things for a country, particularly when it's seeking to attract long-term capital in big risky projects that are going to have a payback over many years if not decades, is to be seen as being a predictable environment where tax changes will be few. But if they are going to come about they'll come about in a way that you know is predictable, understandable.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Country #Years #Long
“Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Sea #Availability #Fire
“There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true or that they make commitments that they have no intention of fulfilling. That is something that I think should not happen. That's a no-no. That's a third rail that you shouldn't touch.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Commitment #Thinking #Politician
“I believe that politicians should speak the truth all the time. Invariably there will be occasions when you make statements that are factually incorrect due to an error.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Believe #Errors #Speak
“You've got to remember that it's a two horse race. So when the Government is doing badly the Opposition is doing better and vice versa.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Horse #Race #Government
“I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Moral #Kind #Given
“What every prime minister struggles with and every leader struggles with is how to balance the two objectives; firstly that of ensuring that all asylum seekers are treated generously and humanely in accordance with the convention and secondly doing everything you can to eliminate or at least discourage people smuggling. And it's a very, very difficult balance.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Struggle #Two #People
“Everyone's got different views. I think you're better off staying within the party and prosecuting those views than stepping out of it.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Party #Thinking #Views
“The Liberal Party is and always has been an amalgam between the conservative and the liberal with a small L traditions. And so from time to time people will see it emphasising one more than the other. I think it is genuinely an amalgam between the two.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Party #Thinking #Two
“I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Strong #Thinking #Long
“On balance, after weighing the arguments, I believe that the time has come for Australia to create a new sovereign wealth fund.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Believe #Australia #Balance
“Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Country #Taxation #Levels
“The most effective check and balance on government has been an independent press which maintains its credibility by ensuring that its criticism is balanced and based on fact - based indeed on solid journalistic work.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Independent #Government #Criticism
“China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Suffering #Climate #India
“There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Dumb #Trying #Down And
“When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Sound #Looks #Too Good To Be True
“Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Jobs #Struggle #Thinking
“Let us be honest with each other. The threat to marriage is not the gays. It is a lack of loving commitment - whether it is found in the form of neglect, indifference, cruelty or adultery, to name just a few manifestations of the loveless desert in which too many marriages come to grief.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Grief #Commitment #Gay
“Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#College #Forever #Library
“I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but equally importantly it can't see you.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Ears #Whispering #Radio
“I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Talking #Issues #Trying
“Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having a credible policy but we are now without integrity. We have given our opponents the irrefutable, undeniable evidence that we cannot be trusted.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Integrity #Issues #Climate
“The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.”
-- Malcolm Turnbull

#Technology #Citizens #News

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