292 Quotes by Tony Abbott

She had been forced to accept the idea that what was true, and what couldn’t possibly be, were ideas that depended on which life you lived – on which lives you lived.

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.

We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That’s what you’ll get under the Coalition.

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.’

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

I’m a politician. I’m not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

There are no factions in the Liberal Party.

Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say “today”, because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.

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