Tony Abbott

You cannot win an election without a fight

— Tony Abbott

There are no factions in the Liberal Party

— Tony Abbott

A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.

— Tony Abbott

More excuses for more failures.

— Tony Abbott

I'm not running for canonisation.

— Tony Abbott

Climate change is crap.

— Tony Abbott

The climate change argument is absolute crap

— Tony Abbott

I don't bring religion into the square.

— Tony Abbott

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

— Tony Abbott

Today, we have got more excuses from the government.

— Tony Abbott

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

— Tony Abbott

Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor

— Tony Abbott

I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning

— Tony Abbott

I can't promise that I won't continue to embarrass people.

— Tony Abbott

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

— Tony Abbott

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

— Tony Abbott

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

— 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

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

— 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

I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for…

— Tony Abbott

I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament…

— 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 do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters.…

— Tony Abbott

I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to…

— Tony Abbott

If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a…

— Tony Abbott

What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are…

— Tony Abbott

Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would…

— Tony Abbott

Putting labels on people is so counter-productive. Most of us on some issues could be considered conservative, on other issues could be…

— Tony Abbott

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people…

— Tony Abbott

“On the outside it doesn't look like very much happened. A burned girl was in my class for a while. Once I…

— Tony Abbott

In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my…

— Tony Abbott

I was a very senior minister in the Howard government and I sat around this particular table [in the prime ministerial office]…

— Tony Abbott

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and…

— Tony Abbott

There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully…

— Tony Abbott

There are some issues where ministers should come and talk to the prime minister, if the prime minister hasn't already talked to…

— Tony Abbott

The one thing that has changed dramatically when you talk to the people of New Zealand and people from Ireland? They feel…

— Tony Abbott

In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part…

— Tony Abbott

What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a…

— Tony Abbott