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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Climate change is crap. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "

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

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