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

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Tony Abbott
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: November 4
Politician
Prime Minister Of Australia
Anthony John Abbott
Anthony John Tony Abbott
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Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.
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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.
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I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses.
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Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the way, and if they simply wanted asylum they could have claimed that in any of the countries through which they'd passed.
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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.
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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.
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More excuses for more failures.
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When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.
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A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.
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I have close family members as well as lots of close friends who are gay. Many of them strongly support gay marriage.
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I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.
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There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!
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Taxes will always be lower under a Coalition government
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The climate change argument is absolute crap
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We are looking at what more we can do. As well as a strong security response we need a strong humanitarian one.
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The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments.
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People who have put money aside on the basis of a certain set of rules shouldn't have that money raided just because government has got a problem.
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Our police, our hard-working police, that our extraordinarily committed and dedicated military personnel, I'm really pleased that they are getting a good paid parental leave scheme.
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The smart way to improve broadband is not to junk the existing network but to make the most of it. It’s to let a competitive market deliver the speeds that people need at an affordable price with government improving infrastructure in the areas where market competition won’t deliver it.
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Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that...
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