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" Climate change is crap. "
Tony Abbott
Climate Change
Change
Climate
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" 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. "
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" Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy. "
Tony Abbott
Tax
Saying
Going
" Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account. "
Tony Abbott
Government
Hold
Legislation
" 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. "
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" 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
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" I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. "
Tony Abbott
Nature
Think
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" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Think
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" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Competition
People
Government
" 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
" 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 try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes. "
Tony Abbott
Them
People
Treat
" I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning. "
Tony Abbott
See
Would
Law
" 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
" For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. "
Tony Abbott
Business
Time
Small
" We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice. "
Tony Abbott
People
Stop
Choice
" I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing. "
Tony Abbott
Which
Think
Principle
" If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. "
Tony Abbott
Economic
Growth
Improve
" 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'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists. "
Tony Abbott
Going
Argument
Get
" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "
Tony Abbott
Protect
Instinctively
People
" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Look
Kind
Living
" 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
" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Saying
Possible
People
" A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con. "
Tony Abbott
Tax Increase
Cut
Con
" I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage. "
Tony Abbott
Marriage
Gay
Friends
" 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. "
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Think
Good
New
" 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
" 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