Joe Hockey Quotes

#1. I will never ever support a people swap where you can send a 13-year-old child unaccompanied to a country without supervision. Never. It will be over my dead body. How dare people.

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#2. It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

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#3. In fact, in Parliament, I pointed out that Australians on average incomes would move into the second highest tax bracket in the next couple of years. That is going to slow down the Australian economy. It's bad for households.

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#4. I'm not as bearish as many others about China. Why? Because China must grow. So I am far more optimistic about China.

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#5. I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.

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#6. As Australians, we must not leave our children worse off. That's not fair. That is not our way.

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#7. Everyone is a buyer, everyone's a potential purchaser and everyone's a potential vendor.

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#8. We will continue to go out onto the streets and to protest, and actively encourage the public to support us in our campaign for free education,

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#9. Fiscal policy, monetary policy, they need to work together to try and raise the level of growth.

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#10. I'm not going to count the dollars before they've come in.

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#11. The poorest people either don't have cars or actually don't drive very far in many cases.

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