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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "

" The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You cannot win an election without a fight. "

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

" 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 running for canonisation. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" There are no factions in the Liberal Party. "