There is nothing more important in business or politics than a deal is a deal.
If you try to come to Australia by boat, even if we think you are the best person in the world, even if you are a Nobel Prize winning genius, we will not let you in.
You will never find a better friend to the United States than Australia.
you cannot maintain popular support for immigration policy, multiculturalism, unless you can control your borders.
Everything we do as a government is focused on getting help and support for hard-working Australian families. We are standing up for them.
I've always been prepared to put my money where my mouth is.
I think Australians are more interested in what I am doing with their money than what I am doing with my own.
I have always been generous because I know that I have done well in life and I believe it is part of my duty to give back. So I am always been philanthropic.
Americans understand that they have no stronger ally, no better friend, than Australia.
The royal commissions are successful and effective when they have a focused terms of reference and can do the job quickly and report. And then action can be taken.
Government will not nominate the former Labor prime minister [Kevin Rudd] to be the UN's next secretary-general.
We will certainly have to rethink the way in which we design and protect places where large numbers of Australians and indeed this will happen around the world.
What we're seeing at the moment is people being radicalised or adopting Islamist, murderous Islamist ideology very, very quickly so that you have people that are not on the counterterrorism radar screen who then often, as a result of mental illness, will then attach themselves to this murderous ideology and then act very quickly.
We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.
People learn from failure or from lack of success.
You cannot keep on saying oh, you know, talking about disrespecting women as just being politically correct or it's not a big deal or brushing things off. You've got to be aware of it.
In terms of our region, what we need to ensure is that the rise of China [is] conducted in a manner that does not disturb the security and the relative harmony of the region upon which China's prosperity depends. Now - now, that requires careful diplomacy, it requires balancing.
The biggest review of taxation ever undertaken in this country, is now dead in the water.
Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.
I'm sick of the cover-ups, I'm sick of the lies, and so are the bloody veterans, that come out daily of the department's mouth.
It is unmanly. It is not some expression of macho virtue. It is the absolute antithesis of this. Real men don't bully women and children. Respect for women ... is so important.
People invest in companies in order to get a share of the profit that company will make. If the Government increases its share of the profits, potential profits, at the expense of the owners of the company, the shareholders, then that makes investment in that company less attractive.
I've been around in public life for a long time. I think people know what I stand for. They know that I have strong convictions, committed principles and I'm prepared to stand up for them.
There's the occasion when politicians will say things that are simply not true, or that they make commitments that they have no intention of fulfilling. That is something that I think should not happen. That's a no-no. That's a third rail that you shouldn't touch.
I believe politicians should aim to be accurate and truthful in what they say at all times. You can be truthful and inaccurate but what you shouldn't be doing at any time is saying things that are untrue or making commitments that you have no intention of honouring.
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