Tony Abbott Quotes

Global stability - economic as well as political - is at risk.

I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.

Investors avoid investing in a region where some elements cause political instability by their so-called movements.

The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.

Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.

Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

There's a lot of strength in the U.S., but there's a lot of froth also. The froth will blow off. We're going to have to face up to some realities that we're not fully facing up to right now.

These are challenging times for all Americans. We face the specter of war abroad and a steady stream of bad economic news at home.

We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression.

We have a country that is in a very delicate situation.

People tend to buy dollars when there is a political disturbance elsewhere in the world.

Recalling our history which has been characterized by political and constitutional instability …

Unless I am gravely mistaken, I am the only reporter in this city, teeming with reporters, who goes to bed every night praying that he is dead wrong. I see danger—fearful danger—hanging over this country that I love. I keep hoping it is a mirage, in which case I shall indeed be dead wrong.

… a menace to our institutions

Mexico is to us the forbidden fruit; the penalty of eating it would be to subject our institutions to political death.

You see the problem of an unstable White House from the outside and worry about it. But from the inside, it is 50 times worse.

Hillary Clinton means devastation. It means world instability.

The outlook for the economy, as always, is highly uncertain.

I don't like this kind of life where every month you are faced with some kind of a coup.

The consumer is going through a period around the world of uncertainty - whether geopolitical uncertainty, economic uncertainty - and that makes them a little nervous as well.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

The country is suffering from musical-chairs syndrome. We all dance around for a bit and then when we try to sit down again, somebody doesn't have a chair. We're running scared; we want ours.