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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" To move past fear is a cliche. "

" I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" You cannot win an election without a fight. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Climate change is crap. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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'm not running for canonisation. "

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