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" 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. "

Tony Abbott

Conservative

Myself

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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. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I'm not running for canonisation. "

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Running

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

Tony Abbott

I Am

Immigrant

" 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 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.' "

" There are no factions in the Liberal Party. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" To move past fear is a cliche. "

" 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. "