Tony Abbott Quotes

There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.

This government thinks that somehow you can build prosperity with new taxes. No country ever got rich by increasing taxation. No country ever built a strong economy by clobbering itself with tax after tax after tax.

We are Liberals who believe in smaller government, lower taxes, greater freedom.

As you watch her story tonight, I know you will see the friend I know - a person of strength, intellect, capacity and truly remarkable courage.

No one, however smart, however well educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.

Fire is a part of the Australian experience.

No cuts to education, no cuts to health, no change to pensions, no change to the GST and no cuts to the ABC or SBS

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'.

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

My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost-of-living pressure. Stopping wasteful and unnecessary spending will keep your interest rates down.

It's pretty obvious that, well, sometimes shit happens, doesn't it?

While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework

The poor will always be with us.

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

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.