Tony Abbott Quotes

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

At least so far, it’s climate change policy that’s doing harm. Climate change itself is probably doing good; or at least, more good than harm.

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

I normally have them cooked on the barbecue, but I enjoy onions!

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

The security response is necessary but it’s not sufficient. There also needs to be a concerted “hearts and minds” campaign against the versions of Islam that make excuses for terrorists.

Islam never had its own version of the Reformation and the Enlightenment or a consequent acceptance of pluralism and the . Fortunately there are numerous Muslim leaders who think their faith needs to modernise from the kill-or-be-killed milieu of the Prophet Mohammed.

I won't be rushing out to get my daughters vaccinated [for cervical cancer], maybe that's because I'm a cruel, callow, callous, heartless bastard but, look, I won't be

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.

... an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.

Only on the sports field are the British an alien tribe.

I'll be accountable to the Australian public at the next election - they expect us to stop the boats and that's what we are doing.

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'.

Fire is a part of the Australian experience.

However long my public life lasts — in government or out of it, in parliament or out of it — I intend to persevere in this cause. Some missions, once accepted, can never really cease. Of course, the future for Aboriginal people lies much more in their own hands than in mine, but getting more of them to school, and making their schooling more useful, is a duty that government must not shirk. An ex-PM has just one unique trait, and that’s a very big megaphone, and I will continue to use it to see this done.