292 Quotes by Tony Abbott

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

The best way of ensuring that you don't get infected with something like this, in the absence of an effective vaccine, would be isolation,

No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.

If there is a pandemic, international travel will almost cease I suspect for a significant period of time,

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.

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.

We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.

I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency for human beings to try to classify. We all have this classification urge - so and so is such and such, that person is in that camp - but look, most sophisticated people defy stereotype.

Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government