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I try to treat people as people and not put them in pigeonholes.

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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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A midnight knock on the door followed by execution is no way a leader should be treated.
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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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I am extremely unwilling that we should take upon ourselves to exercise a jurisdiction which the law does not vest in us.
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Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.
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We will be a consultative, collegial government. No surprises, no excuses. That's what you'll get under the Coalition.
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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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No one, however smart, however well-educated, however experienced, is the suppository of all wisdom.
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A government that understands the limits of power as well as its potential.
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I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
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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.
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A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known it is an act of reasoning and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.
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It is a very heavy responsibility [to be a prime-minister] to make, but someone has to make it for our country and I am thrilled and honoured to have that opportunity and that responsibility.
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The role of CO2 is not nearly as clear as the climate catastrophists would suggest.
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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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