292 Quotes by Tony Abbott

I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

You know what it’s like – you see someone on the train screaming awful, racist things and think, ‘How can I protect this person’s right to free speech?

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.

Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they’d passed.

I don’t think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister’s lack of convictions should be held against her.

Certainly, my uni days involved some statements that I wouldn’t make today.

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.

I can’t promise that I won’t continue to embarrass people.

I’m not really managing the work-life balance, I’m just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you’re the prime minister.