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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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" 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. "

Tony Abbott

Choice

Education

Good

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Tony Abbott

You

Try

" 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. "

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

" To move past fear is a cliche. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Tony Abbott

I Am

Immigrant

" 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. "

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

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

" Climate change is crap. "

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

" 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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "