Tony Abbott Quotes

Cap-and-trade is a dangerous policy fraught with the potential for significant corruption, and it would hurt my constituents and our economy by raising energy costs.

The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead.

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

The failure of world leaders to act on the critical issue of global warming is often blamed on economic considerations.

When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources. If we do not, it would do immense harm to the manufacturing industry in the Midwest.

If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.

Part of what the carbon tax does is make Canada less competitive.

I can tell you that a carbon tax will be a total economic disaster.

In the age of global warming hysteria and the $93 trillion 'Green' New Deal, leftist advocates for more government intervention in the economy under the guise of environmentalism have engaged in a new smear: If you don't buy into climate change hysteria, you're a 'denier' who doesn't care about the environment.

Allowing for endless legal challenges or partisan political discussions is not the proper way to handle an issue that affects the entire scope of the environment and the economy.

Chinese are already more on board than we are. China is the only country that actually discussed in formal government documents how important it is to control the size of your populations if you’re going to limit emissions.

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

The unmistakable lesson is that such is the myopic zealotry of environmentalists like Obama that they would implement policies virtually guaranteed to harm our economy significantly, even when they offer no promise of appreciable environmental benefits.

In Australia we have a government actively undoing what little progress had been made on climate change and stripping money from all the important institutions such as the ABC, CSIRO and SBS.

The government was to raise the duty on cheese to 83 percent, an unpopular move that would doubtless have the more militant citizens picketing cheese shops.

Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies.

There is much to be said for an emissions trading scheme. It was, after all, the mechanism for emission reduction ultimately chosen by the Howard government.

A new study says that working fewer hours can slow global warming. So you know what that means? President Obama's economic policy is also his climate change policy.