If we're honest, most of us would accept that a bad boss is a little bit like a bad father or a bad husband … you find that he tends to do more good than harm. He might be a bad boss but at least he's employing someone while he is in fact a boss.
Quoted in "Tony Abbott under fire" on abc.net.au, July 22, 2002.
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