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Anthony John "Tony" Abbott (born 4 November 1957) is the 28th and current Prime Minister of Australia.

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So, of course, it's disappointing for us here in Warringah, but what matters is what's best for the country, and what's best for the country is not so much who wins or loses Warringah, but who forms, or does not form, a government in Canberra.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 9 months ago Top News

All of us I suppose get carried away but when you make a mistake, fix it, people should be better than that.

– Tony Abbott

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

I have other calls on my time as prime minister, but I will certainly support a ‘yes’ vote.

– Tony Abbott

Found on FOX News 2 years ago Latest Headlines

This is not an attempt to build a liberal pluralist market democracy overnight in the Middle East. That's been tried and it didn't magnificently succeed, surely all human beings are entitled to a government which doesn't commit genocide against them.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Most Read Articles

The only free trade agreement that members opposite have complained about is the free trade agreement with China. What have they got against China?

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

Obviously there is a lot of community debate going on, i have views on the subject which are pretty well known and they haven't changed.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

The RET represents a bipartisan solution, and we applaud the Coalition and ALP (Australian Labor Party) for achieving that, it's important that the views of all groups are heard, and that any concerns are addressed with fact and science.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Business

I accept that same-sex marriage is a significant issue, but frankly, this government's absolute fundamental priority ... is to get the most urgent budget measures through and by far the most urgent budget measure is the small business budget boost.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

But frankly, this government's absolute fundamental priority ... is to get the most urgent budget measures through and by far the most urgent budget measure is the small business budget boost.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

There will be more of this, and it's important in the next couple of years that the relationship beds in because otherwise ... you could quickly find it isn't a self-sustaining relationship.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 4 years ago Top News

It’s good that we’re now exchanging information at a very deep level between our various agencies because the threat posed by violent extremism, particularly by the Daesh death cult, is real and it is global.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

The only way you can stop the deaths is to stop the people smuggling trade. The only way you can stop the deaths is, in fact, to stop the boats, that's why it is so urgent that the countries of Europe adopt very strong policies that will end the people smuggling trade across the Mediterranean.

– Tony Abbott

Found on FOX News 4 years ago World

We believe that the potential attack was inspired by the Daesh death cult in the Middle East.

– Tony Abbott

Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

We have both prospered in peace over the last 40 years because of the stability that our region has enjoyed and anything which disturbs that stability is something that we would mutually deplore and mutually work to ensure didn't happen, we both support freedom of navigation by air and by sea in the South China Sea. We both deplore any unilateral change to the status quo. We both think that disputes should be resolved peacefully and in accordance with international law.

– Tony Abbott

Found on FOX News 4 years ago World

We both support freedom of navigation by air and by sea in the South China Sea. We both deplore any unilateral change to the status quo. We both think that disputes should be resolved peacefully and in accordance with international law.

– Tony Abbott

Found on FOX News 4 years ago World

I'm in the business of trying to find constructive solutions and we've made our position on the execution of these Australians pretty clear, we think these two people who've been on death row now for a decade have been thoroughly rehabilitated and reformed.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

We are naturally reluctant as a peace-loving people to reach out to far-away conflicts but, as we know, this conflict has been reaching out to us for months now.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

The government's decision has the support of the prime minister of Iraq and it responds to a formal request from the United States to contribute specific Australian Defence Force capabilities to this international coalition.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 4 years ago World

It's clear that in too many instances, the threshold for action was set too high. And that the only beneficiary of that was the Martin Place murderer himself, we cannot allow bad people to use our good nature against us.

– Tony Abbott

Found on FOX News 5 years ago World

I don't think it would be possible to witness uglier fanaticism than this, monstrous extremism than this, and I regret to say it is now present in our country.

– Tony Abbott

Found on FOX News 5 years ago World

Regrettably there are those out there, some living in our midst, who would do us harm but your government, at every level, will do whatever we humanly can to keep you safe.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Most Read Articles

This has been a very chastening experience, a very chastening experience, It's not often that something like this happens 16 or 17 months into the life of a government.

– Tony Abbott

Found on FOX News 5 years ago World

It is important to end the uncertainty at the very beginning of the parliamentary sitting week.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

They are perfectly entitled to call for this, but the next point to make is that they are asking the party room to vote out the people that the electorate voted in in September 2013, we are not the Labor Party and we are not going to repeat the chaos and the instability of the Labor years.

– Tony Abbott

Found on FOX News 5 years ago World

The prerogative of mercy should be extended to them, australia opposes the death penalty at home and abroad.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

This is an unimaginably difficult time for the families of these young men, i spoke with both families today and will ensure the government continues to support them.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

The terror threat remains high ... and at this level an attack is likely, we don't know when and how an attack may come, but we do know that there are people with the intent and the capability to carry out further attacks.

– Tony Abbott

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

He is a very tough and competent political operator, he's also a very decent human being.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Industrials

All of our appointments are on merit, as time goes by and the number of women in the parliament increases, I'm confident that there will be more.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Industrials

It is a sign that this government wants the economy to be front and centre in the coming year.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Industrials

This is a ministry for jobs and families and it is a sign that this government wants the economy to be front and center in the coming year.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

The news out of Cairns is heartbreaking, all parents would feel a gut-wrenching sadness at what has happened. This is an unspeakable crime.

– Tony Abbott

Found on CNN 5 years ago World

These are trying days for our country, tonight, there will be tears and prayers across our country for these children.

– Tony Abbott

Found on CNN 5 years ago World

All parents would feel a gut-wrenching sadness at what has happened. This is an unspeakable crime. Tonight, there will be tears and prayers across our country for these children.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Most Read Articles

There's no doubt about that, and this is why we've got to constantly learn the lessons of everything that happens, we've got to be constantly asking ourselves : Is this the best we can do ?

– Tony Abbott

Found on CNN 5 years ago World

This was the act of someone who was way beyond any mainstream, any mainstream, and has been rightly, absolutely repudiated by all the communities of Australia, we want to know why Man Haron Monis wasn't being monitored, given Man Haron Monis history of violence, Man Haron Monis history of mental instability, and Man Haron Monis history of infatuation with extremism.

– Tony Abbott

Found on CNN 5 years ago World

When you are in a firefight, all sorts of things happen, the important thing for the police in a situation like that is to take care of the terrorist as quickly as possible.

– Tony Abbott

Found on CNN 5 years ago World

I share the exasperation of the Australian public at what appears to be someone who's been having a lend of us, for many years.

– Tony Abbott

Found on CNN 5 years ago World

We particularly need to know how someone with such a long record of violence and such a long record of mental instability was out on bail after his involvement in a particularly horrific crime, and we do need to know how he seemed to have fallen off our security agency's watch list back in about 2009.

– Tony Abbott

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

Plainly there are questions to be asked when someone with such a history of infatuation with extremism, violent crime and mental instability should be in possession of a gun license, we have very tough gun laws and I guess we can be pleased that he didn't have a more potent weapon at his disposal. But why did he have a gun license in the first place?

– Tony Abbott

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

I don't know why he dropped off the watch list in those days, I really don't.

– Tony Abbott

Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

We want to know why he wasn't being monitored given his history of violence, his history of mental instability and his history of infatuation with extremism.

– Tony Abbott

Found on FOX News 5 years ago World

This was the act of someone who was way beyond any mainstream, any mainstream, and has been rightly, absolutely repudiated by all the communities of Australia, we want to know why he wasn't being monitored, given his history of violence, his history of mental instability, and his history of infatuation with extremism.

– Tony Abbott

Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

The system did not adequately deal with this individual, there's no doubt about that.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

He had a long history of violent crime, infatuation with extremism and mental instability.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

This is a very disturbing incident. I can understand the concerns and anxieties of the Australian people.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Most Read Articles

Australia is an energy super power and energy security is very important to Ukraine, particularly given its current vulnerability to supply.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Energy

I've made various comments some time ago but as we've seen things develop over the last few months I think it's fair and reasonable for the government to make a modest, prudent and proportionate commitment to this climate mitigation fund.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago Environment

Tony Abbott's brand is so hard and it's so negative. It makes you wonder whether he was a one-use only brand.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

Obviously I take responsibility for everything in the end. I mean, the buck stops here.

– Tony Abbott

Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

The important thing is for all of us to absolutely reject this death cult.

– Tony Abbott

Found on CNN 5 years ago World

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