Eric Abetz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.
-- Eric Abetz

#People #Conservative #Connotation
I don't believe that knifing and that sort of terminology is applicable to myself, but I try to the very best of my ability to be as honest as I can with my colleagues and with the electorate at large.
-- Eric Abetz

#Believe #Trying #Honest
Trying to be just a parliamentarian doing your duty and trying to keep family out and also the celebrity status out is rare and hopefully I have been able thus far to - been able to protect my wife and children.
-- Eric Abetz

#Children #Wife #Trying
I've always enjoyed mixing and mingling with the Tasmanian community and that's, if you like, the bread and butter of politics. And from my perspective, it's meant more time at home, which I also enjoy and it's also meant the greater interaction with the Tasmanian community. And it's also given me freedom to speak out.
-- Eric Abetz

#Home #Speaks Out #Perspective
I think most people would be surprised at the length of the day whilst you're campaigning and then the variety of things that you do and you're asked to do.
-- Eric Abetz

#Thinking #People #Would Be
I think the issue of marriage is a vitally important issue on which I would campaign heavily.
-- Eric Abetz

#Thinking #Issues #Important
I might be a stalwart, but I'm not a kingmaker.
-- Eric Abetz

#Might #Stalwart
Things like Kitchen Cabinet, I'm not sure they necessarily tell the Australian people whether you have judgement, whether you have discernment, whether you have intellectual acuity, whether you are able to develop policy, whether you are able to represent individual cases to the highest levels of government successfully and in a manner that actually achieves outcomes.
-- Eric Abetz

#Government #People #Judgement

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.
My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
Compromise has a negative connotation.
You rely on a sentence to say more than the denotation and the connotation; you revel in the smoke that the words send up.
Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.

Eric Abetz famous quotes

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