Tony Abbott Quotes

We accept that sometimes in difficult circumstances, difficult things happen.

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

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

Climate change is crap.

I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.

The only thing I wouldn't do is sell my arse.

We just can’t stop people from being homeless if that’s their choice.

Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country's British heritage

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.

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

Mates help each other; they do not tax each other.

I've always been very wary of debates involving women.

To be sociable, I puffed on a marijuana cigarette, but I didn't inhale...I just hate the idea of drawing smoke into my lungs.

If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband ... you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.

Coal is good for humanity, coal is good for prosperity, coal is an essential part of our economic future, here in Australia, and right around the world.

A bit of body contact never hurt anyone.

I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.

I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

The last thing Australia needs right now is instability and uncertainty.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.

Abortion is the easy way out. It’s hardly surprising that people should choose the most convenient exit from awkward situations.

Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?

There may not be a great job for [Aboriginal people] but whatever there is, they just have to do it, and if it’s picking up rubbish around the community, it just has to be done.