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" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Saying
Possible
People
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" If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. "
Tony Abbott
Economic
Growth
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" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Look
Kind
Living
" The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go. "
Tony Abbott
Fair
Political
Political Party
" For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family. "
Tony Abbott
Business
Time
Small
" 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. "
Tony Abbott
People
Way
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. "
Tony Abbott
Need
Avoid
Consequences
" I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society. "
Tony Abbott
I Am
Immigrant
Am
" 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
" To move past fear is a cliche. "
Tony Abbott
Cliche
Fear
Move
" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Think
Good
New
" Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy. "
Tony Abbott
Tax
Saying
Going
" Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account. "
Tony Abbott
Government
Hold
Legislation
" The truth is I try to take people as I find them. "
Tony Abbott
Take
People
Truth
" We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice. "
Tony Abbott
People
Stop
Choice
" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Mother
Practice
Abortion
" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Good
You
Value
" I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me. "
Tony Abbott
Should
Against
Convictions
" I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes. "
Tony Abbott
Them
People
Treat
" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Competition
People
Government
" Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow. "
Tony Abbott
Doing
People
Follow
" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Thought
Someone
Just
" I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release. "
Tony Abbott
Because
Stress
I Am
" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Choice
Education
Good
" My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure. "
Tony Abbott
Commitment
Living
Pressure
" 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.' "
Tony Abbott
Life
Think
People
" I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. "
Tony Abbott
Nature
Think
Political
" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Faith
I Am
Politics
" 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. "
Tony Abbott
Fly
Know
Politicians
" You cannot win an election without a fight. "
Tony Abbott
You
Without
Election
" I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists. "
Tony Abbott
Going
Argument
Get