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Cultures are not all equal. We should be ready to proclaim the clear superiority of our culture to one that justifies killing people in the name of God.
Backbencher in Turnbull Government (2015)
There is one fundamental message that we want to go out from this place to every nook and cranny of our country: There should be no new tax collection without an election.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
The security response is necessary but it’s not sufficient. There also needs to be a concerted “hearts and minds” campaign against the versions of Islam that make excuses for terrorists.
Backbencher in Turnbull Government (2015)
"John Howard found a problem and created a solution. Kevin Rudd found a solution and has now created a problem"
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
The Jesuits had helped to instil in me this thought that our calling in life was to be, to use the phrase: 'a man for others'.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
Victory is within our ready grasp...We are in reach of a famous victory
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
Let's be upfront about this. I know Bernie is very sick, but just because a person is sick doesn't necessarily mean that he is pure of heart in all things
Minister in the Howard Government (1996)
"I guess in the end I'm a bit like Bill Clinton on this matter, who said that he thought [abortion] should be safe, legal and rare. And I underline 'rare'."
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
I think it would be folly to expect that women will ever dominate or even approach equal representation in a large number of areas simply because their aptitudes, abilities and interests are different for physiological reasons.
These people aren’t so much seeking asylum, they’re seeking permanent residency. If they were happy with temporary protection visas, then they might be able to argue better that they were asylum seekers
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
What the housewives of Australia need to understand as they do the ironing is that if they get it done commercially it’s going to go up in price and their own power bills when they switch the iron on are going to go up.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
You know, I went to a Catholic school as a kid but no one did anything to me. Maybe I wasn't good-looking enough.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
When you are challenging the young, they can come back at you with language of tremendous power and they are no respecters of sacred cows, you know, the young. There's nothing politically correct about the average young Australian when it comes to use of language.
Shadow Minister (2007)
I mean, the Nazis did terrible evil but they had a sufficient sense of shame to try to hide it
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
... an objectively grave matter has been reduced to a question of the mother’s convenience.
Minister in the Howard Government (1996)
Unsurprisingly, the recipients of climate change subsidies and climate change research grants think action is very urgent indeed. As for the general public, of course saving the planet counts – until the bills come in and then the humbug detector is switched on.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
I won't be rushing out to get my daughters vaccinated [for cervical cancer], maybe that's because I'm a cruel, callow, callous, heartless bastard but, look, I won't be
Minister in the Howard Government (1996)
I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman’s right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man’s right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak.
Shadow Minister (2007)
This government thinks that somehow you can build prosperity with new taxes. No country ever got rich by increasing taxation. No country ever built a strong economy by clobbering itself with tax after tax after tax.
Leader of the Opposition (2009)
Islam needs to delegitimise the urge to “behead all those who insult the Prophet” but only Muslims can do this. That’s why everyone interested in a safer world should be reaching out to “live and let live” Muslims and encouraging them to reclaim their faith from the zealots.
Backbencher in Turnbull Government (2015)