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

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

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

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

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

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

" To move past fear is a cliche. "

" 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. "

" Climate change is crap. "

" I instinctively try to protect people from filth. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There are no factions in the Liberal Party. "

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

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