Tony Abbott

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

“I do enjoy exercise, not because I am an exercise junkie but because it's terrific stress release.”

“I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.”

“I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.”

“My commitment to the forgotten families of Australia is to ease your cost of living pressure.”

“If we boost productivity, we can improve economic growth.”

“I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.”

“I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.”

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

“I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.”

“My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.”

“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.”