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" If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. "
Tony Abbott
Economic
Growth
Improve
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" 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. "
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" I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. "
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" 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. "
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" Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy. "
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Going
" 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. "
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Good
You
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" 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. "
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" I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes. "
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" My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure. "
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" 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. "
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I Am
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" To move past fear is a cliche. "
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Move
" 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.' "
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Life
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" I'm not running for canonisation. "
Tony Abbott
Running
" 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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Think
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New
" 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. "
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Work
Technology
People
" I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing. "
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Which
Think
Principle
" 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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Me
Wife
Attention
" 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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Fair
Political
Political Party
" I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked. "
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Life
Feel
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" I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists. "
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Going
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Get
" I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release. "
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Because
Stress
I Am
" I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me. "
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Should
Against
Convictions
" Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow. "
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Doing
People
Follow
" 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. "
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Saying
Possible
People
" We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice. "
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Choice
" 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. "
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Go
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" If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia. "
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" 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. "
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" You cannot win an election without a fight. "
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Election
" 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. "
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Way
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