Tony Abbott Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.”
-- Tony AbbottSource : "Abbott faces questions over comments in Sri Lanka". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. November 18, 2013.
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“People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.”
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“The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.”
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“There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!”
-- Tony AbbottSource : "Insiders" with Barrie Cassidy, www.abc.net.au. August 20, 2006.
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“Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.”
-- Tony AbbottSource : Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.
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“We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.”
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“To be sociable, I puffed on a ***** cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.”
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“Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.”
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“Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage”
-- Tony AbbottSource : "Program "Tony Abbott on Q and A" Transcript". www.abc.net.au. April 05, 2010.
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“I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.”
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“I've always been very wary of debates involving women.”
-- Tony AbbottSource : "Abbott goes to school in Sydney". Sabra Lane, www.abc.net.au. August 10, 2010.
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“The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.”
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“The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.”
-- Tony AbbottSource : Press Statement, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. February 08, 2015.
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“Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.”
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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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“Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.”
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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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“The measure in the budget in relation to parental leave pay is based on a simple proposition. Most women across Australia have access to one scheme funded by the taxpayer. Some women have access to two schemes and that's great.”
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“The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.”
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“There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully tax payer funded schemes and of course there will be out paid parental leave levy. So all up not only is this an important economic reform, an important reform to have to grow our economy more strongly, it also will leave the budget better off which will help us fix the mess that Labor has created with the budget.”
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“The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.”
-- Tony AbbottSource : "Abbott rejects sell-out claims". www.abc.net.au. August 28, 2011.
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“Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.”
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“I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.”
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“A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.”
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“I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons”
-- Tony AbbottSource : "The Authentic Mr Abbott". "Four Corners" with Liz Jackson, www.abc.net.au. March 03, 2010.
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“If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.”
-- Tony AbbottSource : "Tony Abbott under fire". AM with Linda Mottram, www.abc.net.au. July 2 , 2002.
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“What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.”
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“I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you've paid”
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“Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.”
-- Tony AbbottSource : "Tony Abbott on Q and A". www.abc.net.au. April 5, 2010.
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“Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.”
-- Tony Abbott
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