Top 25 Tony Abbott Quotes

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

I don’t think my religious convictions should be held against me.

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

I’m a politician. I’m not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

The problem with the Australian practice of abortion is that an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother‘s convenience.

I’m not running for canonisation.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

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

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 else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm.

Faith is important to me. It’s important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.

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 relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don’t know that they can be recognised as marriage.

I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don’t have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is ‘Not necessarily.’

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.

Once people come to Australia, they join the team.

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

There are no factions in the Liberal Party.

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 doing their work, they’re all using wireless technology, and we shouldn’t assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.

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

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 syndrome‘ – we fly in, scratch around and fly out.

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

I’m not saying that people on welfare don’t contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.