Top 202 Quotes & Sayings by Tony Abbott - Page 2

Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government

We can't conclusively say whether man-made carbon dioxide emissions are contributing to climate change.

Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.

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.

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.

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

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.

No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest trading partners, be ever stronger.

A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure

I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.

Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is so given.

Today, we have got more excuses from the government.

It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.

To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.

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.

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.

The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.

We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country.

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

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.

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... it [their virginity] is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.

We've got to maintain freedom of navigation of the seas and in the air.

I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.

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.

We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.

Well, Michael, we will be telling the people of Australia in good time before the next election exactly what they can expect from us. No surprises, no excuses. They will be our watch words going into the election and afterwards, should we form a government.

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?

Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

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.

I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.

I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.

There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our budgetary situation right.

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

The climate change argument is absolute crap

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.

It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.

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

Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.

I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak.

We will act to build a better world. We always have, we always will. We will act to lend a helping hand, not just here but wherever we humanly can.

The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.

I don't bring religion into the square.

I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.

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.

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia.