Tony Abbott Quotes

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.

We pledge to the families of Australia that we will never make your lives harder by imposing unnecessary new taxes.

I want to record my deep conviction that our Australian story should fill our hearts with pride and our eyes with tears. It is a story of the dispossessed and the outcast, redeemed through the innate goodness of humanity—a society challenged by nature, tested by war, enlarged by other cultures and blessed by such peace, prosperity and tolerance that we are now the envy of the earth.

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.

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.

We can’t remain in denial about the massive problem within Islam.

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

“I certainly have always said that the whole issue here was to try to ensure that we empowered women…[and] gave women in a very difficult position all the support they needed to make what was for them the best possible choice”.

Although most Muslims utterly reject terrorism, some are all too ready to justify “death to the infidel”.

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

I guess in the end I'm a bit like Bill Clinton on this matter, who said that he thought [abortion] should be safe, legal and rare. And I underline 'rare'.

The poor will always be with us.

I have often pondered the psychology of people who seem uncomfortable with the society that has formed them. There is much about Australia I would like to change, but not its fundamentals.

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

[Abortion is] the easy way out.