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I'm not running for canonisation.

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Tony Abbott
Age: 66
Born: 1957
Born: November 4
Politician
Prime Minister Of Australia
Anthony John Abbott
Anthony John Tony Abbott
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Look, good government doesn't look for excuses, good government gets on with the job.
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If you want to put a price on carbon why not just do it with a simple tax?
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There are no factions in the Liberal Party
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
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I was pointing out the depth of the friendship between Australia and Indonesia and the fact that Australia has been there for Indonesia when Indonesia has been in difficulty.
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No cuts to health , no cuts to education, no cuts to pensions.
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Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.
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You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.
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Voluntary paid maternity leave: yes compulsory paid maternity leave: over this Government’s dead body, frankly. It just won’t happen.
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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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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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We've got to get the system right. That's why we've got this root-and-branch reform under way.
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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.
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We are going to be a government of no surprises and no excuses a government which keeps its commitments and a government which is straight and candid with the Australian people and that's what we intend to do.
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They've changed the salesman but they haven't changed the product.
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I think anything which improves services is in principle a good thing.
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The choice made by families not to immunize their children is not supported by public policy or medical research nor should such action be supported by taxpayers in the form of child care payments.
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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.
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I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.
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Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.
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