Tony Abbott

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

— Tony Abbott

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.

— Tony Abbott

Prima facie, every estate, whether given by will or otherwise, is supposed to be beneficial to the party to whom it is…

— Tony Abbott

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

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

— Tony Abbott

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

— Tony Abbott

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

— Tony Abbott

I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door,

— Tony Abbott

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes…

— Tony Abbott

I think my wife and my kids are incredibly good to allow me to stay in public life given that they have…

— Tony Abbott

I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big…

— Tony Abbott

The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It’s to…

— Tony Abbott

I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every…

— Tony Abbott

It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind…

— Tony Abbott

This is a government which is proposing to put at risk our manufacturing industry, to penalise struggling families, to make a tough…

— Tony Abbott

I'm still getting my exercise at five o'clock in the morning, that's good. So far I've managed to hold on to a…

— Tony Abbott

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than…

— Tony Abbott

It was a positive sign that the conversation took place, it's a sign of the depth of the friendship between Australia and…

— Tony Abbott

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when…

— Tony Abbott

There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country:…

— Tony Abbott

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

— Tony Abbott

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

— Tony Abbott

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration…

— Tony Abbott

There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western…

— Tony Abbott

To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my…

— Tony Abbott

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need…

— Tony Abbott

We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually…

— Tony Abbott

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people…

— Tony Abbott

Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number…

— Tony Abbott

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

— Tony Abbott

Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.

— Tony Abbott

We are a very like-minded group, the senior members of this government. The outliers are not very far away from the mainstream.

— Tony Abbott

No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the…

— Tony Abbott

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a…

— Tony Abbott

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

— Tony Abbott

I'm confident that there are plenty of people who have the strength of character and the presence of mind to warn me…

— Tony Abbott

We shouldn't be willy-nilly creating potential human life just to satisfy the urges of the scientific community.

— Tony Abbott

It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.

— Tony Abbott

I think that it's high time that the Prime Minister stopped making excuses for bad policy and started listening to the forgotten…

— Tony Abbott

Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that…

— Tony Abbott