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

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

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

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

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

" There are no factions in the Liberal Party. "

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

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

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

" The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm not running for canonisation. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "