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" To move past fear is a cliche. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia. "

" Climate change is crap. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" You cannot win an election without a fight. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are no factions in the Liberal Party. "