Malcolm Turnbull Quotes

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• The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The…
• What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand…
• My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols…
• All Australians understand that high-quality, reliable and affordable broadband is a critical part of the infrastructure our nation needs to prosper in coming years.
• Are not the gays who seek the right to marry, to formalise their commitment to each other, holding up a mirror to heterosexuals who are…
• Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they…
• The way to lose weight is to eat less, so I ate a lot less for a month and lost a lot of weight pretty…
• Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not…
• Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
• China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
• There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.
• When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
• Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked…
• I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am…
• I love radio - its immediacy and especially its intimacy... it is part of your life, whispering into your ear. You can't see it, but…
• I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and…
• Many Liberals are rightly dismayed that on this vital issue of climate change we are not simply without a policy, without any prospect of having…
• The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way…
• We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination…
• In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend…

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