Tony Abbott quotes

Tony Abbott is an Australian politician who served as the 28th Prime Minister of Australia. Known for his conservative views, he led the Liberal Party from 2009 to 2015. He continues to be an influential figure in Australian public life. Here are 126 of his quotes:

It seems that, notwithstanding the dramatic increases in manmade CO2 emissions over the last decade, the world's warming has stopped.

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Victory is within our ready grasp...We are in reach of a famous victory.

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I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... it [their virginity] is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.

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While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.

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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.

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The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

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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.

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There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.

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Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it's not necessarily everyone's place to come to Australia.

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

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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.

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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.

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I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.

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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.

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When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.

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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.

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You know, I went to a Catholic school as a kid but no one did anything to me. Maybe I wasn't good-looking enough.

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WorkChoices is dead, it's buried, it's cremated.

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Well, that was one boat that did get stopped, wasn't it?

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The Jesuits had helped to instil in me this thought that our calling in life was to be, to use the phrase: 'a man for others.'

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Governments which live in fear of tomorrow's headline are incapable of any change.

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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.

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