Tony Abbott Quotes

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• For small business people, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.
• If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.
• If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.
• Climate change is crap.
• I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
• A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.
• I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.
• 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…
• 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…
• I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.
• I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.
• I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
• I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.
• My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.
• Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.
• The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.
• I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all…
• Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.
• You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.
• 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…

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