Scott Morrison

“Operation Sovereign Borders has worked and delivered a human dividend that is compassionate and fair... our plan is simple. We won't change it. Labor will.”

“One of the marks of our economic management is that we've always exceeded expectations.”

“There are many challenges our country has - our economic security, our national security.”

“Each day, I send my kids to school, and I know other members' kids should also go to school, but we do not support our schools being turned into parliaments.”

“Australia's migrant communities have built the country. It has been one of the key pillars of Australia's prosperity over generations.”

“Leaders always step up, regardless of the circumstances.”

“Where I think people are being offensive to religion in this country - whichever religion that might be, but particularly the one I and many other Christians subscribe to - well, we will just call it out, and we will demand the same respect that people should provide to all religions.”

“Australia is not a secular country. It is a free country. This is a nation where you have the freedom to follow any belief system you choose.”

“I'm committed to winning. The leadership of the Liberal Party is always the gift of the parliamentary Liberal Party, and I never make any presumptions on it.”

“I respect people of all sexualities; I respect people of all religions, all faiths. I love all Australians.”

“I think it is true that, post the global financial crisis initially - and for some period after that and particularly with how the mining investment boom and commodity prices played out - there was a dislocation that occurred in some of the more traditional mechanisms.”

“Our job... as we take forward this mantle of leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together, which has been bruised and battered this week, but that... we bring the parliament back together.”

“I have a track record of under-promising and over-delivering, whether it's on the economy, border protection, welfare reforms.”

“I remember when we came in, in 2013, and I was implementing our border protection policy, people threw their hands up - and I said, 'I'm doing what I said I would do in the way I said I'd do it' - and guess what: I'm now getting the results I said I'd get.”

“The best thing I can do for someone who's not in a job is get them in a job, and this government has had the greatest success of any government at getting Australians into work.”

“All economies are structured differently - the tax systems, the regulatory systems, the federal systems - and that is as true of Australia and the United States as it is of Australia and Germany and the U.K.”

“Canberra can be a bit of a debating society from time to time.”

“Firms gain comparative advantage from how good their people are. Retaining and attracting talent is a key point of competitive advantage in the global economy. We are seeing that play out, and there are implications for Australia, too. The idea that companies now compete on who can pay their workers the lowest - that's all changing.”

“I don't want the values of others being imposed on my children in my school, and I don't think that should be happening in a public school or a private school.”

“What we want is more learning in schools and less activism in schools.”