Tony Abbott Quotes

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

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.

Even the toughest politicians sometimes wonder whether political life is worth the personal cost.

For me, as for every leader of the Liberal Party, encouragement for the family, support for small business and respect for values and institutions that have stood the test of time are at the heart of my public life.

Rootless, cosmopolitan intellectuals parading their moral superiority, or masters of high finance dressing up self-interest as economic correctness, are not for him.

Thank you for putting up with the invasion

Unsurprisingly, the recipients of climate change subsidies and climate change research grants think action is very urgent indeed. As for the general public, of course saving the planet counts – until the bills come in and then the humbug detector is switched on.

More than 100 years of photography at Manly Beach in my electorate does not suggest that sea levels have risen despite frequent reports from climate alarmists that this is imminent.

Climate change is by no means the sole or even the most significant symptom of the changing interests and values of the West. Still, only societies with high levels of cultural amnesia – that have forgotten the scriptures about man created 'in the image and likeness of God' and charged with 'subduing the earth and all its creatures' – could have made such a religion out of it.

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.

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 mean, the Nazis did terrible evil but they had a sufficient sense of shame to try to hide it

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

As many of us know, women are particularly focused on the household budget and the repeal of the carbon tax means a $550 a year benefit for the average family.

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