Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Tony Abbott - Page 4

There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.

There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.

I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table [in the prime ministerial office] in many discussions. The difference between being a senior minister and the prime minister is that ultimately the buck does stop with the prime minister and in the end the prime minister has to make those critical judgement calls and that's the big difference.

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough situation worse for millions of households right around Australia. And for what? To make not a scrap of difference to the environment any time in the next 1000 years.

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten families of Australia.

There will be no surprises, there will be no excuses, we will do what we've said we will do.

We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses; a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.

There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.

We are about getting things done. We are not about the blame game. We are not about making excuses.

Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy being 20 years less than that of the general community?

Tony Abbott's books are so amazing!

The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.

A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.

So, my friends, in a week or so the Governor-General will swear in a new government.

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

Victory is within our ready grasp...We are in reach of a famous victory

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.