Quote

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

Tony Abbott

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tony Abbott
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 4
Politician
Prime Minister Of Australia
Anthony John Abbott
Anthony John Tony Abbott
Well
Experienced
Educated
Smart
However
Wisdom
Wells

More quotes by Tony Abbott

Image
The only party which is going to increase taxes after the election is the Labor Party.
Tony Abbott
Image
No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.
Tony Abbott
Image
Do we really want to invest $50 billion of hard earned taxpayers money in what is essentially a video entertainment system?
Tony Abbott
Image
There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
Tony Abbott
Image
There will be no surprises and no excuses from a Coalition government, Barrie.
Tony Abbott
Image
Middle income families with children are Australia’s new poor
Tony Abbott
Image
I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.
Tony Abbott
Image
There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.
Tony Abbott
Image
I am, as you know, hugely unconvinced by the so-called settled science on climate change.
Tony Abbott
Image
Australia will take more refugees from Syria in response to the growing international crisis but it will not increase the total number of asylum seekers it accepts.
Tony Abbott
Image
What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
Tony Abbott
Image
No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism.
Tony Abbott
Image
We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.
Tony Abbott
Image
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.
Tony Abbott
Image
I'm focused on doing the job the treasurer should do.I don't respond to gossip.
Tony Abbott
Image
We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.
Tony Abbott
Image
Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.
Tony Abbott
Image
It's very easy for Australians living in big cities to either romanticise or demonise the situation in Aboriginal places - to kind of look at things through the 'noble innocents' prism or through the 'chronically dysfunctional' prism, and I suspect that is so often the case.
Tony Abbott
Image
I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
Tony Abbott
Image
We will act to build a better world. We always have, we always will. We will act to lend a helping hand, not just here but wherever we humanly can.
Tony Abbott