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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow. "

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

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

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

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" To move past fear is a cliche. "

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

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