Tony Abbott famous quotes

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.
-- Tony Abbott

#Sometimes #Accepting #Circumstances

People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.
-- Tony Abbott

#Government #People #Problem

The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.
-- Tony Abbott

#Running #Country #Jobs

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
-- Tony Abbott

#Mean

Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.
-- Tony Abbott

#Jesus #Australia

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

#Creating #Community #Human Life

To be sociable, I puffed on a ***** cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.
-- Tony Abbott

#Hate #Marijuana #Ideas

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

#Needs #Human Life #Treated

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

#Country #People #Heritage

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.
-- Tony Abbott

#Thinking #Creating #Issues

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.
-- Tony Abbott

#Debate

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.
-- Tony Abbott

#Government #Quality #Determined

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.
-- Tony Abbott

#Australia #Lasts #Needs

Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that.
-- Tony Abbott

#Running #Government #People

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
-- Tony Abbott

#Dad #Granted #Grew

Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.
-- Tony Abbott

#Retirement #Zero #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
-- Tony Abbott

#People #Needs #Should

The measure in the budget in relation to parental leave pay is based on a simple proposition. Most women across Australia have access to one scheme funded by the taxpayer. Some women have access to two schemes and that's great.
-- Tony Abbott

#Simple #Two #Australia

The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.
-- Tony Abbott

#Government #People #Excuse

There'll be some savings from preventing double dipping by public servants which are currently able to access not one but two fully tax payer funded schemes and of course there will be out paid parental leave levy. So all up not only is this an important economic reform, an important reform to have to grow our economy more strongly, it also will leave the budget better off which will help us fix the mess that Labor has created with the budget.
-- Tony Abbott

#Two #Get Better #Important

The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.
-- Tony Abbott

#Arses

Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.
-- Tony Abbott

#Military #Hard Work #Police

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

#Exercise #Law #Vests

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.
-- Tony Abbott

#Facts #Source #Humans

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons
-- Tony Abbott

#Thinking #Numbers #Aptitude

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.
-- Tony Abbott

#Husband #Father #Boss

What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
-- Tony Abbott

#Iron #Australia #Bills

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
-- Tony Abbott

#Simple #Thinking #Years

Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.
-- Tony Abbott

#Country #Thinking #Views

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

#People #Abortion #Awkward

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

#Christian #Thinking #Doors

No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
-- Tony Abbott

#Smart #Educated #Wells

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.
-- Tony Abbott

#Jobs #People #Community

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.
-- Tony Abbott

#People #Way #Welfare

If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax.
-- Tony Abbott

#Simple #Want #Why Not

I want to make it clear that I do not judge or condemn any woman who has had an abortion, but every abortion is a tragedy and up to 100,000 abortions a year is this generation's legacy of unutterable shame.
-- Tony Abbott

#Years #Judging #Abortion

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

#Mean #People #Small Business

I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak
-- Tony Abbott

#Sex #Men #Thinking

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.
-- Tony Abbott

#Mother #Practice #Abortion