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Anthony John Abbott (born 4 November 1957) is an Australian politician who was the 28th Prime Minister of Australia, from 18 September 2013 to 15 September 2015. Abbott was leader of the Liberal Party of Australia from 2009 to 2015, and has been a member of parliament for Warringah since 1994.

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Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable. Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.

Airstrikes, Choose, Collective, Iraq, Responsibility, Self

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.

Country, Interested, Jobs, Performance, Running, Think

Like the Governor-General, when asked what you enjoy most about the job my tendency is to say "today", because of the insights you get into our nation and because of the privileged contact you have with so many people.

Asked, Enjoy, Job, Jobs, People, Today

I can't promise that I won't continue to embarrass people.

People, Promise, I Can, Embarrass, Continue

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.

Asylum, Australia, Boat, Country, People, Simply

There are tens, perhaps hundreds of millions of people living in poverty and danger who might readily seek to enter a Western country if the opportunity is there.

Country, Enter, Living, Opportunity, People

If I was in a refugee camp somewhere on the Pakistani border, of course I'd want to come to Australia.

Australia, Borders, Course, Pakistani, Want

I think that marriage is, dare I say it, between a man and a woman, hopefully for life and there are all sorts of other relationships which should be acknowledged and recognised, but I don't know that they can be recognised as marriage.

Hopefully, Know, Men, Recognised, Should, Thinking

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.

Government, Money, People, Problem

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.

Altruism, Country, Europe, Misguided, Run, Running

Now, I know that there are some Aboriginal people who aren’t happy with Australia Day. For them it remains Invasion Day. I think a better view is the view of Noel Pearson, who has said that Aboriginal people have much to celebrate in this country’s British Heritage.

Australia, Country, Heritage, People, Think, Thinking

Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.

Australia, Come, Identified, Increase, Retirement, Zero

The the relationship between the prime minister and the monarch is very much a personal one and when it comes to the constitution of the Order of Australia, which is headed by the monarch, this is governed by letters patent, which are a matter between the prime minister and the monarch.

Australia, Constitution, Matter, Order, Patents

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.

Candid, Commitment, Government, Keeps, People

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

Educated, Experienced, Smart, Suppository, Wells, Wisdom

Even potential human life needs to be treated with great respect.

Needs, Human Life, Treated, Respect, Life

For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

Family, Mean, Motivational Sales, People, Time, Women

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

Ifs, Want, Weekend, Weekends, Work

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.

Bigger, Smaller, Village, Welfare

While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.

Bad, Different, Men, Numbers, Simply, Thinking

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