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Tony Abbott Quotes

I mean there are many, many people in all sorts of different countries who don't have a great life, who are subject to injustice. Are we obliged to take all of them who come here? I think the answer is 'Not necessarily.'

Tony Abbott

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: australian
Birth: November 4, 1957

Topics

Life Great People Think Injustice

I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it.

Andrea Martin

Cry Paid Like Public Getting Unless

If the Founding Fathers and other patriots who fought during the Revolutionary War could see the United States today, I believe they would be proud of the path that the thirteen colonies, now fifty strong states, have taken since then.

John Linder

Today Path War Believe Proud Strong

The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.

Martin O'Malley

Politics Voice American Too Much Our

Can a film really change anything? I mean, what was the last time? Maybe the Italian neo-realists, where they became the voice and the heart and the soul of Italy, a nation that had been destroyed. I don't know.

Martin Scorsese

Change Heart Time Soul Voice Know

My one complaint with my father as a parent is that, not only was he not a golfer, but also he was sort of opposed to golf. I was a country club kid growing up. I should have played golf, but my father thought golf was a sport for old men.

Mike Greenberg

Father Men Growing Up Thought Golf

When I moved to Minnesota, I found there was a thriving and determined movement, a grassroots movement, to revitalize the Ojibwe language. And I've never come to be a competent speaker. I have to say that right now. But even learning the amount of Ojibwe that one can at my age is a life-altering experience.

Louise Erdrich

Learning Age Experience Language Say

Couples that do save have stronger, more stable, less stressful unions. In other words, you don't want to be fighting about saving; you just want to be saving, period.

Jean Chatzky

Words Fighting Stronger You Want

My commitment is my commitment.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

Commitment

The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the '80s.

Doug Jones

Man Me World Mystery Back Play

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

Conrad Hall

Problems Way Own His Cinematographer

Either you give in, or you fight. That's all I know, being where I'm from. You fight for what you want. You go after what you want. The only thing I could do was give up or keep fighting for what I wanted in life.

Allen Iverson

Life Fight Fighting You Know Want

The racism of the Nazis threatened to make whatever we had experienced look like child's play. If they could be so brutal to the Jews, what would they do to the blacks? So large numbers of black young men and women rallied to the defence of the empire.

Peter Abrahams

Women Men Racism Child Black Look