Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

" We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice. "

" 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. "

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

" To move past fear is a cliche. "

" You cannot win an election without a fight. "

" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "

" You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal. "

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

" Once people come to Australia, they join the team. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account. "

" 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. "

" The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It's to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won't deliver it. "

" There are no factions in the Liberal Party. "

" The truth is I try to take people as I find them. "

" 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. "

" Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow. "

" I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "