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

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

" 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. "

" To move past fear is a cliche. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Climate change is crap. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I'm not running for canonisation. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" You cannot win an election without a fight. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "