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" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "

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

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

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

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

" Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy. "

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

" I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" To move past fear is a cliche. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "