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" A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con. "
Tony Abbott
Tax Increase
Cut
Con
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" Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today. "
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Today
Days
Involved
" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Thought
Someone
Just
" I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. "
Tony Abbott
Good
You
Value
" My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure. "
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Commitment
Living
Pressure
" Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account. "
Tony Abbott
Government
Hold
Legislation
" Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow. "
Tony Abbott
Doing
People
Follow
" I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have to cop a whole lot of collateral attention that, being human, they'd rather not get. "
Tony Abbott
Me
Wife
Attention
" Climate change is crap. "
Tony Abbott
Climate Change
Change
Climate
" I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning. "
Tony Abbott
See
Would
Law
" 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
Think
Good
New
" Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed. "
Tony Abbott
People
Way
Australia
" I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked. "
Tony Abbott
Life
Feel
Uncomfortable
" Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics. "
Tony Abbott
Faith
I Am
Politics
" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Need
Avoid
Consequences
" You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal. "
Tony Abbott
You
Up
Try
" All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable. "
Tony Abbott
Work
Technology
People
" If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia. "
Tony Abbott
Somewhere
Border
Australia
" I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia. "
Tony Abbott
End
Want
Risk
" I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me. "
Tony Abbott
Should
Against
Convictions
" Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village. "
Tony Abbott
Bigger
Life
You
" I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. "
Tony Abbott
I Am
Immigrant
Am
" I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release. "
Tony Abbott
Because
Stress
I Am
" What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice. "
Tony Abbott
Choice
Education
Good
" I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. "
Tony Abbott
Nature
Think
Political
" I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.' "
Tony Abbott
Life
Think
People
" If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. "
Tony Abbott
Economic
Growth
Improve
" To move past fear is a cliche. "
Tony Abbott
Cliche
Fear
Move
" I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists. "
Tony Abbott
Going
Argument
Get
" I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes. "
Tony Abbott
Them
People
Treat
" I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing. "
Tony Abbott
Which
Think
Principle