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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. "
Tony Abbott
Bigger
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You
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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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" 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. "
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" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "
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" If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. "
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" I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia. "
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" Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Climate change is crap. "
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" You cannot win an election without a fight. "
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" I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning. "
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" There are no factions in the Liberal Party. "
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" I'm not running for canonisation. "
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" 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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" I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage. "
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" 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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" I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release. "
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" My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure. "
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" The truth is I try to take people as I find them. "
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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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" 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. "
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" We just can't stop people from being homeless if that's their choice. "
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" 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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" I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. "
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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. "
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" I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing. "
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" My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents. "
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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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" 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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