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

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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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm not running for canonisation. "

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

" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "