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" 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. "

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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. "

Tony Abbott

Life

Feel

Uncomfortable

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

" Climate change is crap. "

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

" 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. "

" There are no factions in the Liberal Party. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" To move past fear is a cliche. "

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

Tony Abbott

I Am

Immigrant

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "

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