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" 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. "

" A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con. "

" 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. "

" Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn't make today. "

" Climate change is crap. "

" 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. "

" For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. "

" I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. "

" I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release. "

" I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me. "

" I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked. "

" If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia. "

" 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. "

" If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. "

" I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage. "

" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "

" I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists. "

" 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.' "

" I'm not running for canonisation. "

" I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active. "

" I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools. "

" I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing. "

" I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader. "

" 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. "

" I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage. "

" I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels. "

" I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. "

" 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. "

" I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes. "

" It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case. "

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