Best 173 quotes of Tony Abbott on MyQuotes

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

A government that says what it means, and means what it says.

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.

A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government.

Another big problem with any Australian emissions reduction scheme is that it would not make a material difference to atmospheric carbon concentrations unless the big international polluters had similar schemes.

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con.

Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.

Australia would play its role in taking displaced people from the Syrian conflict.

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.

Climate change is crap.

Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.

Every prime minister has a whole series of networks, and there are official formal networks and there are unofficial informal networks. I'm lucky in that I have good official formal networks, starting with my own office, the leadership group, the cabinet and the party room.

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.

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

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

I also think that if you want to put a price on carbon, why not just do it with a simple tax? Why not ask motorists to pay more, why not ask electricity consumers to pay more and then at the end of the year you can take your invoices to the tax office and get a rebate of the carbon tax you've paid

I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.

I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.

I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.

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

I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had

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

I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.

I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.

I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.

I feel a little uncomfortable at being asked the sorts of questions that other Catholics in public life tend not to be asked.

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

If people are going to do things which have certain consequences that they would rather avoid, they should do whatever they need to avoid the consequences.

If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.

If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.

If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?

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

I instinctively try to protect people from filth.

I just think that this whole issue of creating potential human life, not to give life, but to give the scientists a bit more of a leg-up, is fraught with danger.

I'm confident that there are plenty of people who have the strength of character and the presence of mind to warn me of difficulties and alert me to opportunities.

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

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

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.

I'm still getting my exercise at five o'clock in the morning, that's good. So far I've managed to hold on to a bike ride on Saturday or Sunday morning, probably at least two weekends out of three.

In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads.

In drawing an inference or conclusion from facts proved, regard must always be had to the nature of the particular case, and the facility that appears to be afforded, either of explanation or contradiction. No person is to be required to explain or contradict, until enough has been proved to warrant a reasonable and just conclusion against him, in the absence of explanation or contradiction.

In respect of Indonesia, I am determined to be the best possible friend of Indonesia that I can be, consistent with my overriding duty to protect our country. We would never do anything that was damaging to Indonesia, because we want Indonesia to flourish. We want Indonesia to take its rightful place as one of the really important countries of the world, as it will, sooner or later.

In the era of mobile phones and emails, you're no more out of the loop in China than you are in Sydney.