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

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

" 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. "

" I'm not running for canonisation. "

" I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Climate change is crap. "

" You cannot win an election without a fight. "

" 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. "

" Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "