I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
“I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.”
— Tony Abbott · Argument
The World Motivation
I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
“I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.”
— Tony Abbott · Argument
I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.
I want to see an end to sovereign risk questions over Australia.
What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
I see myself as a social conservative, but I think that there are lots of social institutions that produce beneficial reforms, like public hospitals, for instance, and schools.
Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.
I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.
There was that argument that if we had more women in positions of authority, the world would be a nicer place. And then we got Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Indira Gandhi. When women become acclimatised to war, they can become every bit as ruthless as men.