Tony Abbott

I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like…

— 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

I want to be a very good friend to Indonesia, but there are some things which are non-negotiable. Border protection is just…

— Tony Abbott

I'm not running for canonisation.

— Tony Abbott

I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.

— Tony Abbott

Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of…

— 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

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

— Tony Abbott

Victory is within our ready grasp...We are in reach of a famous victory

— Tony Abbott

Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people…

— Tony Abbott

They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.

— 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

It is very important for our long-term economic future that the relationship with Japan, Korea and China, who are our three biggest…

— Tony Abbott

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act…

— Tony Abbott

I think it's time for the Prime Minister to stop making excuses and to start governing.

— Tony Abbott

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

— Tony Abbott

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

— 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

We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been…

— 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

Here we go again, a government which is making yet more excuses for yet more failure when it comes to getting our…

— Tony Abbott

Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good…

— Tony Abbott

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they…

— 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 just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a…

— Tony Abbott