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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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" 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 think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage. "

" 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. "

" The truth is I try to take people as I find them. "

" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

Tony Abbott

Conservative

Myself

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Tony Abbott

I Am

Immigrant

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Tony Abbott

Think

Door

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

Tony Abbott

You

Try

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

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

" I'm not running for canonisation. "

Tony Abbott

Running

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

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

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

" 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. "