Tony Abbott Quotes About Politicians

Quotes about: Politicians

• The problem with politicians getting to know the issues in indigenous townships is that we tend to suffer from what Aboriginal people call the 'seagull syndrome' - we fly in, scratch around and fly out.

  Tony Abbott

  Issues, People, Suffering

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

  Tony Abbott

  Media, Umpires, Complaining

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

  Tony Abbott

  Argument, Politician, Scientist

  "Abbott discusses new leadership role". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. December 08, 2009.

• I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes in the heat of discussion you go a little bit further than you would if it was an absolutely calm, considered, prepared, scripted remark. The statements that need to be taken absolutely as gospel truth are those carefully prepared scripted remarks.

  Tony Abbott

  Taken, Needs, Littles

  "Gospel truth not always in the telling says Tony Abbott". "AM" with Lyndal Curtis, www.abc.net.au. May 18, 2010.

• I do not regard myself as a Christian politician. I regard myself as a politician who just happens to think religion matters. I would be appalled, absolutely appalled, to think religion drove anyone's politics in a secular democracy like ours.

  Tony Abbott

  Christian, Thinking, Democracy

• No senior politician can expect to have work-life balance. I'm afraid there are some jobs for which work-life balance inevitably goes out the window. If you want work-life balance you just have to accept that you can't be a senior member of a government, or for that matter a senior member of an opposition.

  Tony Abbott

  Senior, Jobs, Government

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

• I think all senior politicians tend to be rather more subtle then the commentators would have it. It is a natural tendency for human beings to try to classify. We all have this classification urge - so and so is such and such, that person is in that camp - but look, most sophisticated people defy stereotype.

  Tony Abbott

  Senior, Thinking, People

  "Grattan on Friday: In Conversation with Tony Abbott". Interview with Michelle Grattan, theconversation.com. March 27, 2014.

• There's a sense in which politicians can never work hard enough.

  Tony Abbott

  Hard Work, Politician, Enough

  Australia politics live with Katharine Murphy, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2015.

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