Quotes from Tony Abbott

chasing someone and being chased at the same time. You look in both directions at once.

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

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

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.

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.

I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

Both Mum and Dad were converts to Catholicism, and normally if you convert to Catholicism you have thought about it more than someone who just grew up with it, taking it for granted.

You cannot win an election without a fight.

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.

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.