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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Tony Abbott

Think

Leadership

You

" 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. "

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

" There are no factions in the Liberal Party. "

" 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

" 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. "

Tony Abbott

Think

Door

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

" 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. "

Tony Abbott

Wife

Attention

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

" 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. "

" Climate change is crap. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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